Estimating end-to-end Internet distance can benefit many applications and services, such as efficient overlay construction, overlay routing and location, and peer-topeer systems. ...
Yan Chen, Khian Hao Lim, Randy H. Katz, Chris Over...
—A handful of proposals address the problem of bootstrapping a large DHT network from scratch, but they all forgo the standard DHT join protocols in favor of their own distribute...
Jae Woo Lee, Henning Schulzrinne, Wolfgang Kellere...
In this paper we outline requirements, challenges, and designs for encounter-based mobile social networks, where relationships are based on a temporarily shared location. To illus...
Abedelaziz Mohaisen, Eugene Y. Vasserman, Max Schu...
—In this paper, we propose a formal analysis of domain extenders for hash functions in the indifferentiability framework. We define a general model for domain extenders and prov...
Marion Daubignard, Pierre-Alain Fouque, Yassine La...
The Peer Sampling Service (PSS) has been proposed as a method to initiate and maintain the set of connections between nodes in unstructured peer to peer (P2P) networks. The PSS us...
Gian Paolo Jesi, Edoardo Mollona, Srijith K. Nair,...