Abstract— Although direct reciprocity (Tit-for-Tat) contribution systems have been successful in reducing freeloading in peerto-peer overlays, it has been shown that, unless the ...
Raul Landa, David Griffin, Richard G. Clegg, Eleni...
— A large number of overlay protocols have been developed, almost all of which assume each host has two-way communication capability. However, this does not hold as the deploymen...
Xiaohui Shi, Yang Chen, Guohan Lu, Beixing Deng, X...
We describe a decentralized, adaptive mechanism for replica location in wide-area distributed systems. Unlike traditional, hierarchical (e.g, DNS) and more recent (e.g., CAN, Chor...
The evolution of the Internet towards a global infrastructure for real time voice and video applications involves providing stringent Quality of Service (QoS) levels. Although som...
Abstract. We present three heuristic strategies for folding RNA sequences into secondary structures including kissing hairpin motifs. The new idea is to construct a kissing hairpin...