Most of the current trust models in peer-to-peer (P2P) systems are identity based, which means that in order for one peer to trust another, it needs to know the other peer’s ide...
Li Lu, Jinsong Han, Lei Hu, Jinpeng Huai, Yunhao L...
—Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems in general, and BitTorrent (BT) specifically, have been of significant interest to researchers rnet users alike. Existing models of BT abstract away...
Due to their simplicity and effectiveness, gossip-based membership protocols have become the method of choice for maintaining partial membership in large P2P systems. A variety of...
Network Address Translation (NAT) causes well-known difficulties for peer-to-peer (P2P) communication, since the peers involved may not be reachable at any globally valid IP addre...
—A number of analytical models exists that capture various properties of the BitTorrent protocol. However, until now virtually all of these models have been based on the assumpti...
Michel Meulpolder, Johan A. Pouwelse, Dick H. J. E...