We present findings from our study of a music sharing and remixing community in an effort to quantify and understand the structural characteristics of commons-based peer productio...
The problem of encouraging trustworthy behavior in P2P online communities by managing peers’ reputations has drawn a lot of attention recently. However, most of the proposed solu...
Although the ant metaphor has been successfully applied to routing of data packets both in wireless and fixed networks, little is yet known about its applicability to the task of...
SHARK is a novel concept and middleware service for search in peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. Rather than flooding a network like Gnutella or imposing numerical IDs on objects like d...
Abstract— Multimedia centric P2P must take into consideration the main characteristics and the complex relationships among multimedia objects. In this paper, we propose a cluster...