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INFOCOM
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
The Index Poisoning Attack in P2P File Sharing Systems
— P2P file-sharing systems have indexes, which users search to find locations of desired titles. In the index poisoning attack, the attacker inserts massive numbers of bogus re...
Jian Liang, Naoum Naoumov, Keith W. Ross
INFOSCALE
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Exploiting P2P systems for DDoS attacks
— When a P2P system has millions of concurrently active peers, there is the risk that it could serve as a DDoS engine for attacks against a targeted host. In this paper we descri...
Naoum Naoumov, Keith W. Ross
AICT
2006
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
Optimizing and Balancing Load in Fully Distributed P2P File Sharing Systems
A peer-to-peer file sharing system includes a lookup and a content distribution protocol. Very efficient peer-to-peer protocols exist for content distribution, but efficient in...
Anh-Tuan Gai, Laurent Viennot
IPTPS
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
An Empirical Study of Free-Riding Behavior in the Maze P2P File-Sharing System
Maze1 is a P2P file-sharing system with an active and large user base. It is developed, deployed and operated by an academic research team. As such, it offers ample opportunities ...
Mao Yang, Zheng Zhang, Xiaoming Li, Yafei Dai
IMC
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Characterizing Unstructured Overlay Topologies in Modern P2P File-Sharing Systems
During recent years, peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing systems have evolved in many ways to accommodate growing numbers of participating peers. In particular, new features have cha...
Daniel Stutzbach, Reza Rejaie, Subhabrata Sen