Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technologies promise to provide efficient distribution, sharing and management of resources, such as storage, processing, routing and other sundry service capabi...
File-sharing applications remain today the most representative and popular realization of the Peerto-Peer paradigm. Large objects receive an increasing amount of interest in such s...
In this paper, we first propose a novel Public License Infrastructure (PLI) that uses cryptographic threshold secret sharing schemes to provide decentralized public license service...
— Micro-payment systems have the potential to provide non-intrusive, high-volume and low-cost pay-asyou-use services for a wide variety of web-based applications. We proposed a n...
Incentives for resource sharing are crucial for the proper operation of P2P networks. The principle of the incentive mechanisms in current content sharing P2P networks such as Bit...
Pawel Garbacki, Dick H. J. Epema, Maarten van Stee...