Digital identity and trust management mechanisms play an important role on the Internet. They help users make decisions on trustworthiness of digital identities in online communit...
Peer-to-peer networks have been commonly used for tasks such as file sharing or file distribution. We study a class of cooperative file distribution systems where a file is br...
Ernst W. Biersack, Damiano Carra, Renato Lo Cigno,...
Content storage in a distributed collaborative environment uses redundancy for better resilience and thus provides good availability and durability. In a peer-to-peer environment,...
—In Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems where stored objects are small, routing dominates the cost of publishing and retrieving an object. In such systems, the issue of fairly balancing t...
—Several proposals on P2P-ISP cooperation have recently been developed using information sharing for localitybased peering. Their benefits in terms of P2P efficiency, ISP cost,...