After many years of reluctance, major content owners
finally appear to have embraced the Internet. There
are now several legal download services available on
the Internet, but downloading incurs a delay for the
user. Streaming reduces this delay, but creating a
scalable interactive Video-on-Demand streaming
service is neither trivial nor cheap, creating high
barriers to entry.

In this book, we address the problem of designing and
implementing a scalable system for Internet based
interactive multimedia streaming, and present the
Streaming P2P Protocol (SPP) architecture, a system
for low-cost...