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P2P
2010
IEEE
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On the Privacy of Peer-Assisted Distribution of Security Patches
Abstract--When a host discovers that it has a software vulnerability that is susceptible to an attack, the host needs to obtain and install a patch. Because centralized distributio...
Di Wu, Cong Tang, Prithula Dhungel, Nitesh Saxena,...
P2P
2010
IEEE
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PeerDedupe: Insights into the Peer-Assisted Sampling Deduplication
As the digital data rapidly inflates to a world-wide storage crisis, data deduplication is showing its increasingly prominent function in data storage. Driven by the problems behin...
Yuanjian Xing, Zhenhua Li, Yafei Dai
P2P
2010
IEEE
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Waiting for Anonymity: Understanding Delays in the Tor Overlay
Although Tor is the most widely used overlay for providing anonymity services, its users often experience very high delays. Because much of Tor usage is for Web applications, which...
Prithula Dhungel, Moritz Steiner, Ivinko Rimac, Vo...
P2P
2010
IEEE
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13 years 8 months ago
Measurement and Analysis of BitTorrent Traffic in Mobile WiMAX Networks
Abstract--As mobile Internet environments are becoming dominant, how to revamp P2P operations for mobile hosts is gaining more and more attention. In this paper, we carry out empir...
Seungbae Kim, Xiaofei Wang, Hyunchul Kim, Taekyoun...
P2P
2010
IEEE
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13 years 8 months ago
Boosting Gossip for Live Streaming
Gossip protocols are considered very effective to disseminate information in a large scale dynamic distributed system. Their inherent simplicity makes them easy to implement and de...
Davide Frey, Rachid Guerraoui, Anne-Marie Kermarre...
P2P
2010
IEEE
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13 years 9 months ago
Unraveling BitTorrent's File Unavailability: Measurements and Analysis
—BitTorrent suffers from one fundamental problem: the long-term availability of content. This occurs on a massivescale with 38% of torrents becoming unavailable within the first...
Sebastian Kaune, Rubén Cuevas Rumín,...
P2P
2010
IEEE
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A QoE-Aware P2P Streaming System Using Scalable Video Coding
—P2P streaming has attracted much attention recently with promises for higher revenues and better load distribution. Still, the majority of P2P video streaming systems today empl...
Osama Abboud, Thomas Zinner, Konstantin Pussep, Si...
P2P
2010
IEEE
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Do BitTorrent-Like VoD Systems Scale under Flash-Crowds?
—The efficiency of BitTorrent for file sharing has inspired a number of BitTorrent-based P2P protocols for Videoon-Demand (VoD). It has been shown that these systems are scalab...
Lucia D'Acunto, Tamas Vinko, Johan A. Pouwelse
P2P
2010
IEEE
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WhatsUp: News, From, For, Through, Everyone
—WHATSUP (WUP) is a new form of electronic news. It is personalized and decentralized. Users receive news and have the ability to express their interest in it. This opinion, in t...
A. Boutet, Davide Frey, Rachid Guerraoui, Anne-Mar...
P2P
2010
IEEE
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13 years 9 months ago
Analyzing the DC File Sharing Network
—This paper investigates the Direct Connect (DC) file sharing network, which to the best of our knowledge, has never been academically studied before. We developed a participati...
Pavel Gurvich, Noam Koenigstein, Yuval Shavitt