One of the reasons that search performance of peerto-peer file-sharing systems is poor is that results are poorly described, hurting the client’s ability to rank them. This is a...
There are two popular parallel I/O programming styles used by modern scientific computational applications: unique-file and shared-file. Unique-file I/O usually gives satisfactory ...
Kui Gao, Wei-keng Liao, Arifa Nisar, Alok N. Choud...
An emerging paradigm in peer-to-peer (P2P) networks is to explicitly consider incentives as part of the protocol design in order to promote good (or discourage bad) behavior. Howe...
Michael Piatek, Tomas Isdal, Arvind Krishnamurthy,...
In a distributed environment the utilization of file buffer caches in different clients may vary greatly. Cooperative caching is used to increase cache utilization by coordinatin...
Song Jiang, Fabrizio Petrini, Xiaoning Ding, Xiaod...
Of the many P2P file-sharing prototypes in existence, BitTorrent is one of the few that has managed to attract millions of users. BitTorrent relies on other (global) components f...
Johan A. Pouwelse, Pawel Garbacki, Dick H. J. Epem...