Abstract. This paper examines the problem of characterizing and assessing the global impact of the load imposed by a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) overlay on the AS-level underlay. In particu...
Fairness is an important management issue for peer-to-peer file sharing systems. In this paper, we study the credit system of the P2P file sharing network eMule (http://www.emule-p...
—Two of the fundamental problems in peer-to-peer (P2P) streaming are as follows: what is the maximum streaming rate that can be sustained for all receivers, and what peering algo...
Shao Liu, Minghua Chen, Sudipta Sengupta, Mung Chi...
Many P2P systems have been designed without taking into account an important factor: a large fraction of Internet users nowadays are located behind a network address translator (NA...
Lucia D'Acunto, Michel Meulpolder, Rameez Rahman, ...
In this paper, we study p2p systems, where peers have to share their available resources between their own and other peers' needs. One such example is a system of peers who us...