acronyms.tex

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\newacronym{ALM}{ALM}{Application Layer Multicast}
\newacronym{DBS}{DBS}{Data Broadcasting Set of rules}
\newacronym{LBS}{LBS}{Load Balancing Set of rules}
\newacronym{URL}{URL}{Universal Resource Locator}

\newglossaryentry{activity}{
    name={Activity},
    text={activity},
    description={An array of counters with the number of rounds that each peer in the team did not send a chunk},
    plural={activities}
}

\newglossaryentry{buffering-time}{
    name={Buffering time},
    text={buffering time},
    description={The time required receive at least two chunks separated by the buffer size},
    plural={buffering times}
}

\newglossaryentry{chunk}{
    name={Chunk},
    text={chunk},
    description={\href{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunk_(information)}{A piece of stream}},
    plural={chunks}
}

\newglossaryentry{chunk-time}{
    name={Chunk time},
    text={chunk time},
    description={The time required to play a chunk},
    plural={chunk times}
}

\newglossaryentry{joining-time}{
    name={Joining time},
    text={joining time},
    description={The time required by a peer to receive the list of peers of the team from the splitter},
    plural={joining times}
}

\newglossaryentry{media} {
    name={Media},
    text={media},
    description={\href{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia}{Data expresing information usually interpreted by humans}}
}

\newglossaryentry{monitor}{
    name={Monitor},
    text={monitor},
    description={A trusted and reliable peer of a team},
    plural={monitors}
}

\newglossaryentry{neighborhood-degree}{
    name={Neigborhood degree},
    text={neighborhood degree},
    description={The number of neighbors (peers) to which a chunk is forwarded},
    plural={neighborhood-degrees}
}

\newglossaryentry{origin} {
    name={Origin},
    text={origin},
    description={The first peer in the path that each chunk follows between the splitter and the team},
    plural={origins}
}

\newglossaryentry{peer} {
    name={Peer},
    text={peer},
    description={\href{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer}{Networked entity that receives and sends a stream}},
    plural={peers}
}

\newglossaryentry{player} {
    name={Player},
    text={player},
    description={\href{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_player_software}{An application that is able to reproduce a media stream}},
    plural={peers}
}

\newglossaryentry{pre-fetching_horizon} {
    name={Pre-fetching_horizon},
    text={pre-fetching horizon},
    description={The distance of the pre-fetched chunks to the playing point},
    plural={peers}
}

\newglossaryentry{round} {
    name={Round},
    text={round},
    description={The process of sending a (usually different) chunk from the splitter to all the peers of the team},
    plural={rounds}
}

\newglossaryentry{round-time} {
    name={Round time},
    text={round-time},
    description={The time required to complete a round},
    plural={round-times}
}

\newglossaryentry{server} {
    name={Server},
    text={server},
    description={\href{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_(computing)}{A process running on the Internet that is able to send data upon requests}},
    plural={servers}
}

\newglossaryentry{splitter} {
    name={Splitter},
    text={splitter},
    description={P2PSP entity responsible for splitting the \gls{media} into chunks and sending the to the team},
    plural={splitters}
}

\newglossaryentry{stream} {
    name={Stream},
    text={stream},
    description={\href{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_media}{A sequence of data that is consumed while it is received}}
}

\newglossaryentry{start-up-time}{
    name={Start-up time},
    text={start-up time},
    description={The time required by a peer to start playing the stream},
    plural={start-up-times}
}

\newglossaryentry{team}{
    name={Team},
    text={team},
    description={The set of peers in an P2PSP overlay},
    plural={teams}
}

\newglossaryentry{unicast} {
    name={Unicast},
    text={unicat},
    description={\href{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicast}{A point-to-point communication}}
}