The iBand is a wearable bracelet-like device that exchanges information about its users and their relationships. This exchange happens during the common gesture of the handshake, ...
Marije Kanis, Niall Winters, Stefan Agamanolis, An...
With the explosion of social media, scalability becomes a key challenge. There are two main aspects of the problems that arise: 1) data volume: how to manage and analyze huge data...
Ching-Yung Lin, Jimeng Sun, Nan Cao, Shixia Liu, S...
: Query transformation is a serious hurdle on semantic peer-to-peer environment. For interoperability between peers, queries sent from a source peer have to be efficiently transfor...
The Gnutella protocol requires peers to broadcast messages to their neighbours when they search files. The message passing generates a lot of traffic in the network, which degrade...
Yamini Upadrashta, Julita Vassileva, Winfried K. G...
This paper presents Bittella: a new social network for content distribution based on Peer-to-Peer technologies. It exploits the common interests of the users in order to create soc...