A fair contract signing protocol allows two potentially mistrusted parities to exchange their commitments (i.e., digital signatures) to an agreed contract over the Internet in a f...
—This paper analyzes the potential of cooperative proxy caching for peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic as a means to ease the burden imposed by P2P traffic on Internet Service Providers ...
Abstract—In recent years, Peer-to-Peer (P2P) streaming systems experienced tremendous growth and became one of the largest bandwidth consumer on Internet. PPLive, one of the most...
—Firewalls have been widely deployed on the Internet for securing private networks. A firewall checks each incoming or outgoing packet to decide whether to accept or discard the...
Users of social networking services can connect with each other by forming communities for online interaction. Yet as the number of communities hosted by such websites grows over ...