This paper describes a new protocol for authentication in Peer-to-Peer systems. The protocol has been designed to meet specialized requirements of P2P systems, such as lack of dir...
Abstract--Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANET) and Peer-ToPeer (P2P) systems are emerging technologies sharing a common underlying decentralized networking paradigm. However, the related...
In the current Internet picture more than 70% of the hosts are located behind Network Address Translators (NATs). This is not a problem in the client/server paradigm. However, the...
This paper proposes an optimistic concurrency control (CC) algorithm, called Sequential Order with Dynamic Adjustment (SODA), that guarantees timely and correct execution of concu...
—Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have failed to reduce the cost of peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic. Traffic throttling devices increase user download times, and caches store content...