Many P2P systems have been designed without taking into account an important factor: a large fraction of Internet users nowadays are located behind a network address translator (NA...
Lucia D'Acunto, Michel Meulpolder, Rameez Rahman, ...
Fine-Grained Cycle Sharing (FGCS) systems aim at utilizing the large amount of idle computational resources available on the Internet. Such systems allow guest jobs to run on a ho...
Video-on-demand (VoD) is increasingly popular with internet users. However, VoD is costly due to the load placed on video servers. Peer-to-peer (P2P) techniques are an approach to...
Bin Cheng, Xiuzheng Liu, Zheng Zhang, Hai Jin, Lex...
—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...
Although IP-multicast has been proposed and investigated for years, there are major problems inherent in the IP-multicasting technique, e.g., difficulty to scale up the system, di...