Abstract—Many peer-to-peer file sharing communities implement credit policies to incentivise users to contribute upload resources. Such policies implicitly assume a user model -...
Rameez Rahman, David Hales, Tamas Vinko, Johan A. ...
The multiple description coding of an independent and identically distributed Gaussian source over bit error channels is considered. A novel practical multiple description coding ...
This paper presents an architecture that helps users to collect and qualify meta-information about web resources within a weblog and then share them with a group of people. Our arc...
In this paper, we propose a probabilistic framework targeting three important issues in the computation of quality and trust in decentralized systems. Specifically, our approach a...
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...