Load balancing is a critical issue for the efficient operation of peerto-peer networks. We give two new load-balancing protocols whose provable performance guarantees are within a...
In this paper we take the position that current research in the area of distributed systems has all but forgotten about one of the largest collective Internet resources - the NATe...
Chad Yoshikawa, Brent N. Chun, Amin Vahdat, Fred S...
Today's open platforms for network measurement and distributed system research, which we collectively refer to as testbeds in this article, provide opportunities for controll...
Abstract: In this paper a novel payment system for Peer-to-Peer (P2P) commerce transactions is presented. It implements electronic cash-based transactions, between buyers and merch...
This paper evaluates the performance of two schemes for recovering lost data in a peer-to-peer (P2P) storage systems. The first scheme is centralized and relies on a server that r...