Peer-To-Peer (P2P) networks like Gnutella improve some shortcomings of Conventional Search Engines (CSE) such as centralized and outdated indexing by distributing the search engin...
The inherent instability and unreliability of peer-to-peer networks introduce several fundamental engineering challenges to multimedia streaming over peer-to-peer networks. First,...
The popularity of distributed file systems continues to grow. Reasons they are preferred over traditional centralized file systems include fault tolerance, availability, scalabili...
Ragib Hasan, Zahid Anwar, William Yurcik, Larry Br...
A Private Information Retrieval (PIR) protocol allows a user to retrieve a data item of its choice from a database, such that the servers storing the database do not gain informat...
Abstract. Peer Data Management Systems (PDMSs) have been recently proposed as an evolution of Peer-To-Peer (P2P) systems toward a more semantics-based description of peers' co...