Abstract— Internet flash crowds (a.k.a. hot spots) are a phenomenon that result from a sudden, unpredicted increase in an on-line object’s popularity. Currently, there is no e...
Peer-to-peer systems and applications are distributed systems without any centralized control. P2P systems form the basis of several applications, such as file sharing systems and ...
P2P systems are a revival paradigm for information sharing among distributed nodes in the network. Currently, many research projects or practical applications have emerged from th...
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...
—Structured Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems are highly scalable, self-organizing, and support efficient lookups. Furthermore, Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs), due to their features, a...