In this paper, we describe and evaluate a scalable network of Active Elements (AE) that implements userempowered virtual-multicast overlay network for synchronous data distributio...
In recent years, more than 200 viruses have been reported to use a peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing network as a propagation vector. Disguised as files that are frequently exchan...
: Poison message failure propagation is a mechanism that has been responsible for large scale failures in both telecommunications and IP networks: Some or all of the network elemen...
—Epidemic models based on nonlinear differential equations have been extensively applied in a variety of systems as diverse as infectious outbreaks, marketing, diffusion of belie...
Estimate of packet-loss rates between arbitrary Internet hosts is critical for many large-scale distributed applications, including overlay routing, P2P media streaming, VoIP, and ...