One of the main reasons of the recent success of peer to peer (P2P) file sharing systems such as BitTorrent is its built-in tit-for-tat mechanism. In this paper, we model the band...
We propose a taxonomy of botnet structures, based on their utility to the botmaster. We propose key metrics to measure their utility for various activities (e.g., spam, ddos). Usi...
David Dagon, Guofei Gu, Christopher P. Lee, Wenke ...
— Increasing number of communication softwares are built on distributed architectures based on the Peer-toPeer (P2P) model, such as Skype [1], and PeerCast [2]. This model provid...
In desktop grids the use of off-the-shelf shared components makes the use of dedicated resources economically nonviable and increases the complexity of design of efficient storag...
Chreston Miller, Patrick Butler, Ankur Shah, Ali R...
— Adaptive Search Radius (ASR) is a peer selection method that can be used in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file sharing applications, such as eMule or BitTorrent, in order to reduce the g...