Abstract—This paper describes T-SIZE, a peer counting protocol that is based on gossip-based aggregation. Peer counting has become increasingly important as the size of the netwo...
— Distributed hash tables (DHTs) provide efficient data naming and location with simple hash-table-like primitives, upon which sophisticated distributed applications can be buil...
Flat DHT architectures have been the main focus of the research on DHT design so far. However, there have been also a number of works proposing hierarchical DHT organizations and ...
Our research proposes a simple buyer/seller game that captures the incentives dictating the interaction between peers in resource trading peer-to-peer networks. We prove that for ...
: In modern information systems the dominant retrieval paradigms have shifted from exact matching towards retrieving a list of the most relevant objects. This is because users usua...
Wolf-Tilo Balke, Wolfgang Nejdl, Wolf Siberski, Uw...