In P2P assisted multi-channel live streaming systems, it is commonly believed that in unpopular channels, quality degradation is due to the small number of participating peers wit...
—This paper investigates the Direct Connect (DC) file sharing network, which to the best of our knowledge, has never been academically studied before. We developed a participati...
—WHATSUP (WUP) is a new form of electronic news. It is personalized and decentralized. Users receive news and have the ability to express their interest in it. This opinion, in t...
A. Boutet, Davide Frey, Rachid Guerraoui, Anne-Mar...
—BitTorrent suffers from one fundamental problem: the long-term availability of content. This occurs on a massivescale with 38% of torrents becoming unavailable within the first...
We introduce the novel concept of coprivacy or co-operative privacy to make privacy preservation attractive. A protocol is coprivate if the best option for a player to preserve her...