The availability is often used to measure how well a system can provide the service continuously. The measures of availability for a single computer and for multiple computers are ...
Kang Chen, Shuming Shi, Guangwen Yang, Meiming She...
Recent Internet applications, such as online social networks and user-generated content sharing, produce an unprecedented amount of social information, which is further augmented b...
Nicolas Kourtellis, Joshua Finnis, Paul Anderson, ...
P2P systems that rely on the voluntary contribution of bandwidth by the individual peers may suffer from freeriding. To address this problem, mechanisms enforcing fairness in band...
Pawel Garbacki, Alexandru Iosup, Dick H. J. Epema,...
In P2P systems, large volumes of data are declustered naturally across a large number of peers. But it is very difficult to control the initial data distribution because every use...
— Although cooperation generally increases the amount of resources available to a community of nodes, thus improving individual and collective performance, it also allows for the...