Distributed hash tables (DHTs) have been actively studied in literature and many different proposals have been made on how to organize peers in a DHT. However, very few DHTs have...
Moritz Steiner, Taoufik En-Najjary, Ernst W. Biers...
The recent and unprecedented surge of public interest in peer-to-peer file sharing has led to a variety of interesting research questions. In this paper, we will address the ince...
Philippe Golle, Kevin Leyton-Brown, Ilya Mironov, ...
Modern peer-to-peer file sharing systems rely heavily on the willingness of users to distribute files to others. A selfish user can choose to download a file and consume resou...
In this paper some representative peer-to-peer file sharing applications are compared against two sets of features. The first set describes the semantics of the relevant primiti...
Copyright holders have been investigating technological solutions to prevent distribution of copyrighted materials in peer-to-peer file sharing networks. A particularly popular t...
A number of solutions have been proposed to address the free-riding problem in peer-to-peer file sharing systems. The solutions are either imperfect–they allow some users to ch...
A peer-to-peer file sharing system includes a lookup and a content distribution protocol. Very efficient peer-to-peer protocols exist for content distribution, but efficient in...
In contrast to peer-to-peer file sharing, live streaming based on peer-to-peer technology is still awaiting its breakthrough. This may be due to the additional challenges live str...
Thomas Locher, Remo Meier, Stefan Schmid, Roger Wa...