Structured peer-to-peer (P2P) overlays have been successfully employed in many applications to locate content. However, they have been less effective in handling massive amounts o...
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) applications have recently seen an enormous success and have reached millions of users. The main reason of this success is the anonymity the users enjoy. Howeve...
Shalendra Chhabra, Ernesto Damiani, Sabrina De Cap...
Rational and selfish nodes in P2P systems usually lack effective incentives to cooperate, contributing to the increase of free-riders, and degrading the system performance. Variou...
P2P applications are rapidly gaining acceptance among users of Internet-based services, especially because of their capability of exchanging resources while preserving the anonymi...
Roberto Aringhieri, Ernesto Damiani, Sabrina De Ca...
Since there is no method to verify the trustworthiness of shared files in P2P systems, malicious peers can spread untrustworthy files to the system. In order to prevent untrustw...