Fast and effective distribution of software updates (a.k.a. patches) to millions of Internet users has evolved into a critical task over the last years. In this paper, we characte...
Christos Gkantsidis, Thomas Karagiannis, Milan Voj...
Abstract. Current research in peer to peer systems is lacking appropriate environments for simulation and experimentation of large scale overlay services. This has led to a plethor...
PlanetLab is a global scale platform for experimentation of new networking applications in a real environment. It consists of several nodes, offered by academic institutions or co...
Giovanni Di Stasi, Stefano Avallone, Roberto Canon...
—The Internet has become a cost-effective vehicle for software development and release, particular in the free software community. Given the free nature of this software, there a...
Open-source software communities currently face an increasing complexity in managing and distributing software content among their developers and contributors. This is mainly due ...
Serge Abiteboul, Itay Dar, Radu Pop, Gabriel Vasil...