As the amount of user generated content grows, personal information management has become a challenging problem. Several information management approaches, such as desktop search,...
—A fundamental challenge of managing mutable data replication in a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) system is how to efficiently maintain consistency under various sharing patterns with heter...
Since there is no method to verify the trustworthiness of shared files in P2P file sharing systems, malicious peers can spread untrustworthy files to the system. In order to pre...
—The recent surge of peer-to-peer (P2P) networks consisting of thousands of of hosts makes them a breeding ground for malware proliferation. Although some existing studies have s...
Free-riders and fake files are two important problems in P2P file sharing systems. Previous works have always used incentive mechanisms and trust mechanisms to address them resp...