Abstract--When a host discovers that it has a software vulnerability that is susceptible to an attack, the host needs to obtain and install a patch. Because centralized distributio...
Di Wu, Cong Tang, Prithula Dhungel, Nitesh Saxena,...
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems are becoming increasingly popular as they enable users to exchange digital information by participating in complex networks. Such systems are inexpensiv...
—Peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing systems are becoming increasingly popular due to their flexibility and scalability. We propose a new model to design file replication schemes ...
Large-scale distributed systems, e.g., Grid or P2P networks, are targets for large-scale attacks. Unfortunately, few existing systems support propagation of alerts during the atta...
Michael Treaster, William Conner, Indranil Gupta, ...
In distributed software engineering, the role of informal communication is frequently overlooked. Participants simply employ their own ad-hoc methods of informal communication. Co...