The available bandwidth of a path directly impacts the performance of throughput sensitive applications, e.g., p2p content replication or podcasting. Several tools have been devis...
Traditionally, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have to interconnect with content providers to provide network services to customers. The current business model that connectivity...
Distributed message relaying is an important function of a peer-topeer system to discover service providers. Existing search protocols in unstructured peer-to-peer systems either ...
The common utilization-based definition of available bandwidth and many of the existing tools to estimate it suffer from several important weaknesses: i) most tools report a point...
Due to the prevalence of peer dynamics (i.e., churn), object maintenance becomes a fundamental issue in peer-to-peer storage systems. Although quite a few prototypes have been des...