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First Responders Get Robust, Peer-to-Peer Emergency Communications Capability
White Papers The new CAP has 70 percent fewer lines of code, uses industry-standard protocols, and enables encrypted peer-to-peer networking among emergency responders. ST Electronics (Info-Software Systems) provides command and control systems for law...
[May 22, 2007, 1:00]
Peer-to-Peer Multimedia Streaming Using BitTorrent
White Papers This paper proposes a peer-to-peer multimedia streaming solution based on the BitTorrent content-distribution protocol. Second, the paper introduces a new randomized tit-for-tat peer selection policy that gives free tries to a larger number of...
[October 22, 2008, 1:01]
Peer-to-peer conference rescheduled
News A major conference into peer-to-peer technology will take place later this year, having been postponed because of last week's terrorist attacks in America. The O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer and Web Services Conference will now take place in Washington D.C...
[September 21, 2001, 7:30]
Peer-to-Peer Data Mining, Privacy Issues, and Games
White Papers Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks are gaining increasing popularity in many distributed applications such as file-sharing, network storage, web caching, searching and indexing of relevant documents and P2P network-threat analysis.
[September 19, 2008, 1:01]
Peer-to-peer networks carry surprising cargo
News Advocates of file sharing are distributing the latest Windows update in an effort to show that peer-to-peer networks could play a legitimate role in the distribution of commercial software. Peer-to-peer advocacy group Downhill Battle has made a...
[August 11, 2004, 9:00]
Peer-to-peer networks carry surprising cargo
Talkback You don't know what you're getting with peer to peer. Hmm. I disagree. It is very common in free and open source software circles to distribute software using BitTorrent, mirror sites, and other methods out of the direct control of the initial...
[August 11, 2004, 10:25]
Java, Peer-to-Peer, and Accountability: Building Blocks for Distributed Cycle Sharing
White Papers This paper describes a prototype of such a system, where a peer-to-peer (p2p) network is used to locate and allocate resources; a Java Virtual Machine is used to allow applications to be safely hosted, and for their progress to be monitored by the...
[February 1, 2009, 0:00]
Peer-to-Peer Overlay Broker Networks in an Event-Based Middleware
White Papers This paper investigates the requirements of overlay broker networks and argues that using peer-to-peer techniques for their creation and the content-based routing of events has many advantages. They support their claims with an experimental...
[January 3, 2009, 0:00]
Peer-to-Peer Network Protocols Position Paper
White Papers This paper provides technical information on computer network Peer-to-Peer (P2P) protocols. It highlights issues relating to legal, security and infrastructure risks posed by P2P, reviews possible solutions to mitigate these risks and identifies...
[April 11, 2008, 1:02]
HomeViews: Peer-to-Peer Middleware for Personal Data Sharing Applications
White Papers This paper presents HomeViews, a peer-to-peer middleware system for building personal data management applications. The key innovation in HomeViews is the integration of three concepts: views and queries from databases, a capability-based...
[January 3, 2009, 0:00]
2001: Peer-to-peer technology grows up
News It's now over two years since a few underground song-swapping services put peer-to-peer technology firmly at the forefront of the IT agenda. The appearance of a proof-of-concept worm travelling around the Gnutella network showed that peer-to-peer...
[December 28, 2001, 6:31]
Peer-to-peer battle gets personal
News Enter part two of the new strategy, which seeks to enlist the resources of the federal government in an attempt to put peer-to-peer pirates in federal prison. Until now, the entertainment industry has relied on civil lawsuits aimed at companies...
[August 13, 2002, 15:44]
Peer-to-Peer Behaviour Detection by TCP Flows Analysis
White Papers The use of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) applications is growing dramatically. It concerns applications like Gnutella, Kazaa or eDonkey. These applications sometimes represent as most as 50% of Internet traffic.
[December 27, 2007, 0:01]
NSYNC: Network Synchronization for Peer-to-Peer Streaming Overlay Construction
White Papers In peer-to-peer streaming applications such as IP television and live shows, a key problem is how to construct an overlay network to provide high-quality, almost real-time media relay in an efficient and scalable manner.
[October 22, 2008, 1:01]
Microsoft Windows Peer-to-Peer Platform
White Papers The presenter of this webcast will talk about Microsoft Windows Peer-to-Peer Networking, an operating system component that makes it possible for developers to create new Peer-to-Peer (P2P) programs for computers that are running Microsoft Windows...
[October 6, 2006, 0:00]
Securing Peer-to-Peer Media Streaming Systems From Selfish and Malicious Behavior
White Papers This paper presents a flexible framework for throttling attackers in peer-to-peer media streaming systems. Since peer-to-peer systems are decentralized, it is difficult for individual peers to limit the aggregate download bandwidth consumed by...
[October 22, 2008, 1:01]
psiX: Hierarchical Distributed Index for Efficiently Locating XML Data in Peer-to-Peer Networks
White Papers One of the most important challenges in a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network is to efficiently locate relevant data sources across a large number of participating peers. With the increasing popularity of the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) as a standard...
[December 24, 2008, 0:00]
On the Role of Helpers in Peer-to-Peer File Download Systems: Design, Analysis and Simulation
White Papers While BitTorrent has been successfully used in peer-to-peer content distribution, its performance is limited by the fact that typical internet users have much lower upload bandwidths than download bandwidths.
[May 25, 2007, 1:00]
Opera launches Unite peer-to-peer platform beta
News Opera on Wednesday released the first beta-test version of its Unite browser-based peer-to-peer platform. The company also said it has begun to address some of the potential security issues raised by Unite, which builds a compact web server into...
[October 15, 2009, 14:59]
Variable Neighbor Selection in Live Peer-to-Peer Multimedia Streaming Networks
White Papers Data-driven (or swarming based) streaming is one of the popular ways to distribute multimedia streaming traffic over live Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks. In data-driven streaming networks, each peer independently selects its neighbors based on gossip...
[October 22, 2008, 1:01]
