In this paper we introduce Social VPNs, a novel system architecture which leverages existing social networking infrastructures to enable ad-hoc VPNs which are self-configuring, s...
Renato J. O. Figueiredo, P. Oscar Boykin, Pierre S...
Until now, structured and unstructured networks have been considered in absentia of each other. We believe that next-generation P2P services will require both structured and unstr...
In this paper we present an IRTL (Information Resource Transaction Layer) middleware architecture that addresses some of the important technical challenges associated with heterog...
Junseok Hwang, Praveen Aravamudham, Elizabeth D. L...
We consider the problem of increasing the availability of shared data in peer-to-peer (P2P) systems so that users can access any content, regardless of the current subset of onlin...
Francisco Matias Cuenca-Acuna, Richard P. Martin, ...
In mobile ad-hoc peer-to-peer (M-P2P) networks, a large percentage of the mobile peers typically do not provide any service to the network, thereby motivating incentive schemes for...