Abstract:As one of the most fundamental and pervasive Internet services, media file downloading has undergone several generations of enabling technologies. Unfortunately, the performance today is still far from satisfactory. As the state-ofthe-art approach to accelerating media file downloads, multi-source downloading enables user clients to utilize multiple data sources and various content delivery techniques. However, without careful designs, multi-source downloading can result in worse performance with higher overhe… Show more
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