Let E be an elliptic curve defined over F2n . The inverse operation of point doubling, called point halving, can be done up to three times as fast as doubling. Some authors have t...
Roberto Maria Avanzi, Mathieu Ciet, Francesco Sica
This paper characterizes the query behavior of peers in a peer-topeer (P2P) file sharing system. In contrast to previous work, which provides various aggregate workload statistics...
Alexander Klemm, Christoph Lindemann, Mary K. Vern...
One of the main reasons of the recent success of peer to peer (P2P) file sharing systems such as BitTorrent is its built-in tit-for-tat mechanism. In this paper, we model the band...
Aggregation refers to a set of functions that provide global information about a distributed system. These functions operate on numeric values distributed over the system and can ...
This paper considers a distributed system of software agents who cooperate in helping their users to find services, provided by different agents. The agents need to ensure that th...