BitTorrent is one of the most well known peer-topeer file sharing applications, accounting for a significant proportion of Internet traffic. Current BitTorrent system builds its o...
A number of IEEE 802.15.4 devices can be connected by a tree topology as proposed by ZigBee specification. Address configuration in tree-based ZigBee networks needs to assign ever...
A link farm is a set of web pages constructed to mislead the importance of target pages in search engine results by boosting their link-based ranking scores. In this paper, we int...
In distributed, dynamic networks and applications, such as Peer-to-Peer (P2P), users'behaviour and quality of service/quality of experiment1 are known to influence each other....
Julien Siebert, Vincent Chevrier, Laurent Ciarlett...
Abstract. This paper addresses the problem of specifying and establishing secure collaborations between autonomous entities that need to interact and depend on each other in order ...
Alberto E. Schaeffer Filho, Emil Lupu, Morris Slom...
In this paper, we present a novel distributed certification system in which signing a certificate needs the collaboration of a fixed ratio of the nodes, hence a varying number of n...
There is a large body of research on how to design user interfaces for systems so as to ensure that important messages from the systems are presented to the user to maximize the p...