A distributed search system consists of a large number of autonomous search servers logically connected in a peerto-peer network. Each search server maintains a local index of a c...
The peer-to-peer paradigm shows the potential to provide the same functionality and quality like client/server based systems, but with much lower costs. In order to control the qu...
Kalman Graffi, Dominik Stingl, Julius Rueckert, Al...
Abstract— We consider the problem of supporting bandwidth heterogeneity and congestion control in the context of P2P multicast streaming. We identify several challenges peculiar ...
Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Helen J. Wang, Philip A. C...
File swarming (or file sharing) is one of the most important applications in P2P networks. In this paper, we propose a stochastic framework to analyze a file swarming system und...
Minghong Lin, Bin Fan, John C. S. Lui, Dah-Ming Ch...
Sensor networks, that consist of potentially several thousands of nodes each with sensing (heat, sound, light, magnetism, etc.) and wireless communication capabilities, provide gr...