— Micro-payment systems have the potential to provide non-intrusive, high-volume and low-cost pay-asyou-use services for a wide variety of web-based applications. We proposed a n...
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 ...
— While current Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems facilitate static file sharing, newly-developed applications demand that P2P systems be able to manage dynamically-changing files. Ma...
Structured peer to peer (P2P) systems organize a large number of nodes in well-defined structures and provide efficient and scalable search functionalities. They have been used as ...
—A fundamental challenge of managing mutable data replication in a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) system is how to efficiently maintain consistency under various sharing patterns with heter...