—Distributed object search is the primary function of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file sharing system to locate and transfer the file. The predominant search schemes in unstructured P2P...
Abstract—The Internet has witnessed a rapid growth in deployment of gossip-based protocol in many multicast applications. In a typical gossip-based protocol, each node independen...
Yun Tang, Nan Zhang, Yuanchun Shi, Shiqiang Yang, ...
Malware is software with malicious intent. Besides viruses and worms, spyware, adware, and other newer forms of malware have recently emerged as widely-spread threats to system se...
Francis Hsu, Hao Chen, Thomas Ristenpart, Jason Li...
This paper addresses the difficult problem of selecting representative samples of peer properties (e.g., degree, link bandwidth, number of files shared) in unstructured peer-to-p...
Daniel Stutzbach, Reza Rejaie, Nick G. Duffield, S...
Bidders on eBay have no dominant bidding strategy when faced with multiple auctions each offering an item of interest. As seen through an analysis of 1,956 auctions on eBay for a...