Motivated by the tradeoff between security and efficiency performance parameters that has been imposed on all modern wireless security protocols, we designed a novel security syst...
Many peer-assisted content-distribution systems reward a peer based on the amount of data that this peer serves to others. However, validating that a peer did so is, to our knowled...
Michael K. Reiter, Vyas Sekar, Chad Spensky, Zheng...
—Communications are increasingly relying on peer– to–peer models of interaction in which all participating entities have the same level of authority. Such models allow develo...
Dimitris Glynos, Patroklos G. Argyroudis, Christos...
— In current peer-to-peer systems users interact with unknown services and users for the purpose of online transactions such as file sharing and trading of commodities. Peer-to-...
The open feature of peer-to-peer systems invites the spread of the malfunctioning data. Additional reputation systems are constructed to guarantee the data authenticity. One chall...