Due to a lack of incentives, Internet peerings are a notorious bandwidth bottleneck. Through the use of direct interconnection and content delivery networks, content providers are...
—By building a P2P Content Distribution Network (CDN), peers collaborate to distribute the content of underprovisionned websites and to serve queries for larger audiences on beha...
Overlay networks have shown tremendous potential in solving large scale data dissemination problem by employing peer-to-peer communication protocols. These networks, however, have ...
Peer-to-peer environments have become popular as a framework for exchange of services. In these environments, certain peers may fail to provide their services. Reputation can be a...
The success of BitTorrent has fostered the development of variants to its basic components. Some of the variants adopt greedy approaches aiming at exploiting the intrinsic altruis...