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PE
2007
Springer
140views Optimization» more  PE 2007»
14 years 9 months ago
Stochastic analysis of file-swarming systems
File swarming (or file sharing) is one of the most important applications in P2P networks. In this paper, we propose a stochastic framework to analyze a file swarming system und...
Minghong Lin, Bin Fan, John C. S. Lui, Dah-Ming Ch...
P2P
2010
IEEE
136views Communications» more  P2P 2010»
14 years 7 months ago
On the Privacy of Peer-Assisted Distribution of Security Patches
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,...
ICNP
2005
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Incentives to Promote Availability in Peer-to-Peer Anonymity Systems
Peer-to-peer (P2P) anonymous communication systems are vulnerable to free-riders, peers that use the system while providing little or no service to others and whose presence limit...
Daniel R. Figueiredo, Jonathan K. Shapiro, Donald ...
ICDCS
2005
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Flexible Consistency for Wide Area Peer Replication
The lack of a flexible consistency management solution hinders P2P implementation of applications involving updates, such as read-write file sharing, directory services, online ...
Sai Susarla, John B. Carter
MOBIQUITOUS
2008
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Exploiting Schelling behavior for improving data accessibility in mobile peer-to-peer networks
In 1969, Thomas Schelling proposed one of the most cited models in economics to explain how similar people (e.g. people with the same race, education, community) group together in...
Long Vu, Klara Nahrstedt, Matthias Hollick