—Emerging Web2.0 applications such as virtual worlds or social networking websites strongly differ from usual OLTP applications. First, the transactions are encapsulated in an AP...
This paper addresses two important challenges for current P2P systems, namely churn and selfishness. First, we report on a system [19] whose desirable properties (small peer degre...
Stefan Schmid, Fabian Kuhn, Thomas Moscibroda, Rog...
This paper studies the problem of realizing a common software clock among a large set of nodes without an external time reference (i.e., internal clock synchronization), any centr...
An overlay network is formed on top of – and generally independently from – the underlying physical computer network, by the peers (nodes) of a P2P system. The dynamics of pee...
—Providing independent uniform samples from a system population poses considerable problems in highly dynamic settings, like P2P systems, where the number of participants and the...
Roberto Baldoni, Marco Platania, Leonardo Querzoni...