A CHRONOLOGICAL REVIEW OF THE VIDEO STREAMING OVER P2P NETWORKS

P2P networks are characterized by a potentially large and highly dynamic population of hosts that join and leave the network frequently. Lots of Research has been done at design and evaluation of a quality adaptation streaming mechanism in a multi-source streaming to a single receiver. Multimedia streaming is a real time application so, the main challenges in the design of this mechanism are (1) selection of senders peers nodes; (2) stream switching among the peers; (3) optimizing video quality by active measurements of links; and (4) enhancing the overall Quality of Service (QOS). Key technique to provide quality adaptation is based on active measurements of network links and selection of sender peers to enhance the overall throughput