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An Analysis of the Skype Peer-to-Peer Internet Telephony Protocol
White Papers Skype is a peer-to-peer VoIP client developed by KaZaa. It encrypts calls end-to-end, and stores user information in a decentralized fashion. Skype claims that it can work almost seamlessly across NATs and firewalls and has better voice quality...
[April 26, 2008, 1:02]
Software Company Speeds Development of Visionary Peer-to-Peer Reporting Solution
White Papers By using cutting-edge Microsoft technology, developers increased their productivity and released a robust product that enables people to work in a peer-to-peer manner without requiring any server components.
[May 22, 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]
Attrition Defenses for a Peer-to-Peer Digital Preservation System
White Papers In peer-to-peer systems, attrition attacks include both traditional, network-level denial of service attacks as well as application-level attacks in which malign peers conspire to waste loyal peers' resources.
[January 8, 2007, 0:00]
Preventing DoS Attacks in Peer-to-Peer Media Streaming Systems
White Papers This paper presents a framework for preventing both selfishness and denial-of-service attacks in peer-to-peer media streaming systems. The framework, called Oversight, achieves prevention of these undesirable activities by running a separate peer...
[October 22, 2008, 1:01]
Those Aren't Just Files You're Swapping - The Dangers of Peer-to-Peer File Sharing
White Papers Employees are using company resources to access peer-to-peer (P2P) applications on company time and exposing organizations to serious and potentially catastrophic risks. And, since P2P is primarily used to exchange pirated audio, video, and...
[September 23, 2005, 3:00]
On Peer-to-Peer Media Streaming
White Papers This paper studies a peer-to-peer media streaming system with the following characteristics: its streaming capacity grows dynamically; peers do not exhibit server-like behavior; peers are heterogeneous in their bandwidth contribution; and each...
[October 22, 2008, 1:01]
Vista revs up peer-to-peer engine
News The feature requires the laptops to have built-in Wi-Fi (nearly all notebooks do these days), but does not require Internet access, since the technology uses peer-to-peer connections. The issue also exists in XP, where peer-to-peer options offer...
[May 31, 2006, 8:55]
Energy Consumption and Conservation in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Systems
White Papers Devices capable of storing gigabytes of digital content are becoming ubiquitous, making them an ideal platform for peer-to-peer content delivery and sharing. Based on these observations, the paper implements an approach to improve energy...
[August 13, 2007, 8:09]
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]
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]
Bridgewater Systems and Allot Communications Help Top-Tier Service Provider Take Control of Peer-to-Peer Challenge
White Papers But with the network drain caused by Peer-to-Peer (P2P) and the impact that was having on non-P2P users, the Service Provider was left with two choices for restoring its service levels and reducing operating expenses incurred from the extra stress...
[October 13, 2006, 0:00]
Antivirus firms develop peer-to-peer protection
News Antivirus vendor McAfee is working on techniques designed to combat viruses engineered to spread through peer-to-peer applications such as the popular MP3 file sharing tools Napster and Gnutella. Peer-to-peer file sharing gives individual PCs...
[March 14, 2001, 6:32]
Cisco Dynamic Flow Control for Peer-to-Peer Applications
White Papers Cisco Dynamic Flow Control (DFC) for peer-to-peer applications is a service-control engineering solution for service providers that focus on real-time bandwidth control and containment for shaping peer-to-peer traffic.
[June 13, 2008, 1:01]
A Peer-to-Peer Framework for Mobile Collaboration
White Papers However, these APIs lack of high-level peer-to-peer primitives, so the developers have to focus too much on the technical aspects and not the collaborative aspects. The paper describes a framework used to develop mobile collaborative applications...
[July 5, 2007, 1:00]
Peer2Me - Rapid Application Framework for Mobile Peer-to-Peer Applications
White Papers This paper presents the Peer2Me framework that enables developers to create mobile peer-to-peer applications. The framework provides an API that is easy to adopt, yet capable of creating advanced peer-to-peer applications.
[July 5, 2007, 1:00]
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]
Towards Data Mining in Large and Fully Distributed Peer-to-Peer Overlay Networks
White Papers The Internet, which is becoming a more and more dynamic, extremely heterogeneous network has recently became a platform for huge fully distributed peer-to-peer overlay networks containing millions of nodes typically for the purpose of information...
[September 19, 2008, 1:01]
The Peer-to-Peer Live Video Streaming for Handheld Devices
White Papers The Peer-to-Peer (P2P) application is one of such applications that has dominated the Internet in the past 10 years, thus it is natural to consider whether such applications can be explored using handheld devices.
[October 22, 2008, 1:01]
On the Minimum Delay Peer-to-Peer Video Streaming: How Realtime Can It Be?
White Papers While the P2P bandwidth sharing design is very efficient for bandwidth sensitive applications, it imposes a fundamental performance constraint for delay sensitive applications: the uploading bandwidth of a peer cannot be utilized to upload a piece...
[February 1, 2009, 0:00]
