Network topology inference for multimedia streaming

With the rapid growth of the Internet, multimedia streaming service has been widely studied and deployed. Good streaming service requires high delivery rate and low end-to-end delay. These are not easy to achieve without the knowledge of the underlying network topology. In this chapter, we explore the inference techniques for different network topologies. We discuss the key issues and state-of-the-art approaches for each topology. We also study two typical examples of topology-aware streaming protocols. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg