on the benefits of synchronized playout in peer-to-peer streaming
In this paper we examine the impact of the adopted playout policy on the overall performance of a P2P streaming system. It is argued and showed that adopting (popular) playout policies that result in a divergence of the playout points drastically deteriorates the performance of P2P streaming and that policies that keep these points "near-in-time" should be adopted.
peer to peer video streaming playout schemes