No matter how well designed and engineered, a mix server offers little protection if its administrator can be convinced to log and selectively disclose correspondences between it...
BitTorrent is today's most influential peer-to-peer system. Currently BitTorrent has two very different operating models: (1) public trackers, and (2) private trackers (also k...
Content providers base their business on their ability to receive and answer requests from clients distributed across the Internet. Since disruptions in the flow of these request...
This paper considers the problem of adapting the BitTorrent protocol for on-demand streaming. BitTorrent is a popular peer-to-peer file sharing protocol that efficiently accommodat...
In this paper we analyze a novel paradigm of reliable communication which is not based on the traditional timeout-andretransmit mechanism of TCP. Our approach, which we call Fount...