Abstract. We study the problem of preventing double spending in electronic payment schemes in a distributed fashion. This problem occurs, for instance, when the spending of electro...
We propose a new architecture for on-demand media streaming centered around the peer-to-peer (P2P) paradigm. The key idea of the architecture is that peers share some of their res...
Mohamed Hefeeda, Bharat K. Bhargava, David K. Y. Y...
In this paper, we build an analytical framework for the design and analysis of a new family of social norm based incentive mechanisms for peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. With this fr...
Redundancy is the basic technique to provide reliability in storage systems consisting of multiple components. A redundancy scheme defines how the redundant data are produced and...
— Most of existing search algorithms for unstructured peer-to-peer (P2P) systems share one common approach: the requesting node sends out a query and the query message is repeate...