In the current Internet picture more than 70% of the hosts are located behind Network Address Translators (NATs). This is not a problem in the client/server paradigm. However, the...
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,...
This paper proposes the live demonstration of a prototype of MINERVA1 , a novel P2P Web search engine. The search engine is layered on top of a DHT-based overlay network that conn...
Matthias Bender, Sebastian Michel, Peter Triantafi...
We define and study the bandwidth determination problem in adhoc P2P environments. Using point-to-point bandwidth probes, the goal is to quickly determine each host's upload ...
John R. Douceur, James W. Mickens, Thomas Moscibro...
As the amount of user generated content grows, personal information management has become a challenging problem. Several information management approaches, such as desktop search,...