Overlay networks are used today in a variety of distributed systems ranging from file-sharing and storage systems to communication infrastructures. However, designing, building a...
Boon Thau Loo, Tyson Condie, Joseph M. Hellerstein...
— Overlay-based multicast has been proposed as a key alternative for large-scale group communication. There is ample motivation for such an approach, as it delivers the scalabili...
A well-known problem in P2P systems is freeriding, where users do not share content if there is no incentive to do so. In this paper, we distinguish lazy freeriders that are merel...
Michel Meulpolder, Johan A. Pouwelse, Dick H. J. E...
— The Internet still lacks adequate support for QoS applications with real-time requirements. In great part, this is due to the fact that provisioning of end-to-end QoS to traf...
Mobile WiMAX is a promising wireless technology approaching market deployment. Much discussion concentrate on whether mobile WiMAX will reach a tipping point and become 4G or not. ...