We present a modularized storage and indexing framework that cleanly separates the functional components of a P2P system, enabling us to tailor the P2P infrastructure to the speci...
This paper describes a new protocol for authentication in Peer-to-Peer systems. The protocol has been designed to meet specialized requirements of P2P systems, such as lack of dir...
Decentralized file-sharing systems like Napster [11] and Gnutella [23] have popularized the peer-to-peer approach [18,20,22], which emphasizes the use of distributed resources in ...
The open and anonymous nature of a P2P network makes it an ideal medium for attackers to spread malicious content. In this paper, we propose a reputation-based trust management sy...