This paper focuses on designing incentive mechanisms for overlay multicast systems. Existing proposals on the problem are no longer able to provide proper incentives when rational...
The characteristics of ad hoc networks naturally encourage the deployment of distributed services. Although current networks implement group communication methods, they do not sup...
Abstract. We present a scalable and flexible grouping service based on concast and best-effort single-source multicast. The service assigns participating end systems to specific gr...
— To share and exchange the files among Internet users, Peerto-Peer (P2P) applications build another layer of overlay networks on top of the Internet Infrastructure. In P2P fil...
Zhiyong Xu, D. Stefanescu, Honggang Zhang, Laxmi N...
We consider a network of autonomous peers forming a logically global but physically distributed search engine, where every peer has its own local collection generated by independe...
Josiane Xavier Parreira, Sebastian Michel, Gerhard...