An electronic cash system allows users to withdraw coins, represented as bit strings, from a bank or broker, and spend those coins anonymously at participating merchants, so that ...
Ivan Osipkov, Eugene Y. Vasserman, Nicholas Hopper...
—Gossip-based Peer-to-Peer protocols proved to be very efficient for supporting dynamic and complex information exchange among distributed peers. They are useful for building an...
—In this paper, we study the theory of collaborative upload bandwidth measurement in peer-to-peer environments. A host can use a bandwidth estimation probe to determine the bandw...
John R. Douceur, James W. Mickens, Thomas Moscibro...
One of the reasons that search performance of peerto-peer file-sharing systems is poor is that results are poorly described, hurting the client’s ability to rank them. This is a...
This paper proposes a strategy of improving file availability of peer-to-peer file storage systems, which provides the ability of identifying duplicate files and leveraging the ...