Techniques for Efficient Peer-To-Peer Streaming Relatore:

To my mother This thesis presents the Peer-To-Peer Epi-Transport Protocol (PPETP). In its early stage PPETP initially was known as Peer-To-Peer protocol, used for the transmission of live streaming over Internet to a large number of residential users, typically, with asymmetric and limited upload bandwidth. It then evolved into a more generic protocol and nowadays it could be considered what is called a multicast overlay protocol. In this thesis all the actual features of this protocol including the technician and practical motivations considered in its construction, are presented. Together with the main characteristics of PPETP, other functionalities that allow the creation of a complete library for the PPETP utilization are also presented. The main topics that will be addressed are the specified functionality for the configuration of the protocol, for peers reachability and security issues. As will be clear during the lecture of this thesis, the main feature of PPETP, at this time, is the utilization of Network Coding (NC) procedures as main coding technique. To justify this choice, before the presentation of the protocol, two studies are indro