In distributed and mobile systems with volatile bandwidth and fragile connectivity, non-functional aspects like performance and reliability become more and more important. To forma...
A peer-to-peer (P2P) storage system allows a network of peer computers to increase the availability of their data by replicating it on other peers in the network. In such networks...
Fairness is an important management issue for peer-to-peer file sharing systems. In this paper, we study the credit system of the P2P file sharing network eMule (http://www.emule-p...
Replication on multiple nodes is an effective way to improve the availability in the P2P or grid environment. It is difficult to determine how many replicas can fulfill the user r...
— 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...