The huge success of eBay has proven the demand for customer-to-customer (C2C) electronic commerce. eBay is a centralized infrastructure with all its scalability problems (network ...
Abstract—Early P2P-TV systems have already attracted millions of users, and many new commercial solutions are entering this market. Little information is however available about ...
Privacy--the protection of information from unauthorized disclosure--is increasingly scarce on the Internet, and yet increasingly important as every user becomes both a content co...
Tomas Isdal, Michael Piatek, Arvind Krishnamurthy,...
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(P2P) networks like Gnutella improve some shortcomings of Conventional Search Engines (CSE) such as centralized and outdated indexing by distributing the search engin...
Abstract— The current approach in web searching, i.e., centralized search engines, rises issues that question their future applicability: 1) coverage and scalability, 2) freshnes...