Social media sites (e.g., Flickr, YouTube, and Facebook) are a popular distribution outlet for users looking to share their experiences and interests on the Web. These sites host ...
Abstract—When applied in a commercial deployment, DHTbased P2P protocols face a dilemma: although most real-world participants are so unstable that the maintenance overhead is pr...
– The latency between machines on the Internet can dramatically affect users’ experience for many distributed applications. Particularly, in multiplayer online games, players s...
We evaluate response times, in N-user collaborations, of the popular centralized (client-server) and replicated (peer-to-peer) architectures, and a hybrid architecture in which ea...
This paper presents middleware enabling mutual and equal transfer of computing power between individuals, as in the original idea behind P2P, while also supporting large-scale dis...