— This paper describes WOW, a distributed system that combines virtual machine, overlay networking and peerto-peer techniques to create scalable wide-area networks of virtual wor...
Arijit Ganguly, Abhishek Agrawal, P. Oscar Boykin,...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks continue to be popular means of trading content. However, very little protection is in place to make sure that the files exchanged in these networks a...
The dynamics of peer participation, or churn, are an inherent property of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems and critical for design and evaluation. Accurately characterizing churn requir...
Traffic monitoring is essential for accounting user traffic and detecting anomaly traffic such as Internet worms or P2P file sharing applications. Since typical Internet traffic mo...
This paper tackles a major privacy threat in current location-based services where users have to report their exact locations to the database server in order to obtain their desir...