Consider a completely asynchronous network consisting of n parties where every two parties are connected by a private channel. An adversary At with unbounded computing power activ...
Transactional standards have been promoted by OMG and X/Open to allow heterogeneous resources to participate in an Atomic Commitment Protocol (ACP), namely the two-phase commit pro...
This paper considers the problem of adapting the BitTorrent protocol for on-demand streaming. BitTorrent is a popular peer-to-peer file sharing protocol that efficiently accommodat...
The ability to store vast quantities of data and the emergence of high speed networking have led to intense interest in distributed data mining. However, privacy concerns, as well ...
Load balancing is a critical issue for the efficient operation of peerto-peer networks. We give two new load-balancing protocols whose provable performance guarantees are within a...