In this paper a novel electronic payment protocol suitable for “peer-to-peer” (P2P) networks is presented. It implements electronic cash-based transactions, between buyers and...
The increasing demand for high-bandwidth applications such as video-on-demand and grid computing is reviving interest in bandwidth reservation schemes. Earlier attempts did not ca...
David Michael Turner, Vassilis Prevelakis, Angelos...
Software Transactional Memory (STM) promises to simplify concurrent programming without requiring specific hardware support. Yet, STM’s credibility lies on the extent to which ...
Aleksandar Dragojevic, Pascal Felber, Vincent Gram...
Emerging applications in electronic commerce often involve very low-cost transactions, which execute in the context of ongoing, extended clientserver relationships. For example, c...
Yossi Matias, Alain J. Mayer, Abraham Silberschatz
Credit networks represent a way of modeling trust between entities in a network. Nodes in the network print their own currency and trust each other for a certain amount of each ot...