Ph.D. Thesis

Nick Blundell, Voice over Application-Level Multicast, Lancaster University, September 2005. [pdf] [pdf:viva presentation]

Application-Level Network Audio Conferencing (ALNAC) Routing Protocol

• Nick Blundell, Norbert Egi, and Laurent Mathy, Voice over Application-Level Multicast in Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Multimedia Systems and Networking (WMSN 2006), Phoenix, Arizona, April 2006. [pdf]
• Nick Blundell and Laurent Mathy, Minimising Perceived Latency in Audio-Conferencing Systems over Application-Level Multicast, in Proceedings of Multimedia Interactive Protocols and Systems (MIPS 2004), Grenoble, France, November 2004.
• Nick Blundell and Laurent Mathy, Towards (Perceived) Latency Minimisation in Audio-Conferencing Systems over Application-Level Multicast, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC 2004), The Hague, The Neverlands, October 2004.
• Presentation on ALNAC at SMC 2004, Den Haag, The Neverlands (October 2004). [pdf]
• Presentation on ALNAC at Multi-Service Networks 2004, Cosener's House, Abingdon, Oxfordshire (July 2004). [ppt] [pdf]

Simple Cheating in Application-Level Multicast

• Laurent Mathy, Nick Blundell, Vincent Roca and Ayman El-Sayed "Impact of Simple Cheating in Application-Level Multicast" , IEEE INFOCOM 2004, Hong Kong (March 2004). [pdf]

Application-Level Network Simulator

• Presentation on the Application-Level Network (ALN) Simulator in a CAKES seminar, Lancaster University (Oct 2003). [ppt] [pdf]

Analysis of the Gnutella Protocol

• Nick Blundell and Laurent Mathy "An Overview of Gnutella Optimisation Techniques", PGNet 2002, John Moores University, Liverpool (2002). [ppt] [pdf]

PhD First Year Report

• Nick Blundell "Overlays for Live Internet Multimedia Streaming Systems", PhD First Year Report (Sep 2002). [pdf]