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content sufficiently quickly when the system is not overloaded. It takes a longer time to measure

whether a peer is capable of streaming at the bit rate required by a video-streaming application.

It is generally believed that video streaming will have a significant impact on future online
business. There are two conflicting issues that must be taken into account. Streaming offers

opportunities for cost reduction and efficiency, but Internet users are less willing to pay for such
services. (Hammami, Jemili, Gazdar, Belghith, & Mosbah, 2014)

Streaming systems with peer-to-peer (P2P) technology are changing how we watch movies. In

P2P streaming systems, a peer that plays the movie receives data from other peers (Figure 6). By
sequentially playing the received data, users can watch the entire movie from beginning to end.

We propose a scheduling method to reduce the waiting time for selecting (Kim, Kim, & Lee, 2018)

Figure 6. Peer-to-peer (P2P) technology
(D’Henry, n.d.)

The de facto industry standard for online video streaming services is HTTP Adaptive

Streaming (HAS). Each movie in HAS is temporally segmented and stored in various quality
levels. Depending on the state of the network, the client decides the quality level for each video

segment. This produces the best quality of experience and a seamless playback (QoE).( S

Petrangeli, J van der Hooft & T Wauters 2016)

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