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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]
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]
Small Business Webcast: Moving From a Peer-to-Peer Network to Small Business Server 2003 R2 (Level 100)
White Papers The presenter of this webcast discusses the strategy for upgrading the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network to Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2003 R2.
[June 9, 2007, 1:00]
Network Architectures for Live Peer-to-Peer Media Streaming
White Papers Peer-to-Peer (P2P) media streaming networks, motivated by the huge success of P2P file downloading networks, have recently attracted a lot of research interest. However, it is challenging to design P2P media streaming networks because of the...
[February 1, 2009, 0:00]
A Federated Peer-to-Peer Network Game Architecture
White Papers Gaming is a relatively neglected topic for communication's research - in part this may be ascribed to the closed and proprietary nature of commercial gaming systems - while at the same time gaming presents distinct challenges to network designers...
[April 12, 2005, 3:00]
Deployment of a Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Social Network
White Papers This paper presents the design and architecture of the Maze file-sharing and social network. Maze includes an evolving incentive structure, and simple mechanisms for providing network locality. Maze is one of the first large-scale deployments of an...
[September 7, 2006, 3:18]
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]
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]
Researchers to build peer-to-peer storage monsters
News Napster and other peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing software are built on a similar premise but with one key difference, he added. Only its file store is peer-to-peer," he said. Enter the concept of a "serverless file system" -- a kind of network of...
[January 10, 2001, 8:26]
Linux worm creating P2P attack network
News A new worm that attacks Linux Web servers has compromised more than 3,500 machines, creating a rogue peer-to-peer network that has been used to attack other computers with a flood of data, security experts said on Saturday.
[September 16, 2002, 8:09]
SynchroPass
Downloads Using SynchroPass, it is possible to build secure peer-to-peer network. It allows to synchronously change passwords for current user account on local computer, in one or several domains, and on one or multiple peer-to-peer servers.
[May 22, 2005, 21:00]
Chedar: Peer-to-Peer Middleware
White Papers Currently Chedar combines four different topology management algorithms and provides functionality to monitor how the peer-to-peer network is self-organizing. This paper present a new peer-to-peer (P2P) middleware called CHEap Distributed...
[January 1, 2009, 23:00]
HP server and tablet technologies help OnSite Docs make house calls
White Papers OnSite Docs needed to migrate from a peer-to-peer network of disparate computers to a domain-based network in order to automate medical records, enhance business agility, and enter new markets. The firm also wanted to increase the mobility of its...
[September 21, 2004, 3:00]
EDonkey picking up pace in Euro P2P stakes
News European peer-to-peer network users are abandoning traditionally popular applications like Kazaa in favour of new P2P software, according to latest research. Each computer logged onto the network has a certain range of addresses assigned to it, so...
[October 14, 2003, 18:20]
Mobile Chedar - A Peer-to-Peer Middleware for Mobile Devices
White Papers The middleware is an extension to the Chedar peer-to-peer network allowing mobile devices to access the Chedar network and also to communicate with other Mobile Chedar peers. This paper presents the Mobile Chedar Peer-to-Peer middleware for mobile...
[March 16, 2009, 4:48]
Innocent surfers can appear guilty of song-swapping
News The anonymous paper -- Entrapment: Incriminating Peer to Peer Network Users -- detailed several methods that could be used to trick unknowing users into downloading copyrighted files and host them, reported New Scientist.
[October 3, 2003, 9:25]
Self-Organizing Schema Mappings in the GridVine Peer Data Management System
White Papers Built following the principle of data independence, it separates a logical layer - where data, schemas and mappings are managed - from a physical layer consisting of a structured Peer-to-Peer network supporting efficient routing of messages and...
[November 2, 2008, 23:00]
Rocky road ahead for IPv6
News Microsoft needs IPv6 for its future peer-to-peer plans, and network companies and LAN administrators are simply not adopting it. Besides, Droms points out, "new technologies like Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) and Network Address Translation...
[April 24, 2002, 11:03]
Locality-Aware and Churn-Resilient Load Balancing Algorithms in Structured Peer-to-Peer Networks
White Papers Structured peer-to-peer overlay networks like Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) map data items to the network based on a consistent hashing function. Due to the cost for network construction and maintenance, the locality-aware algorithms can hardly...
[July 10, 2008, 1:01]
Protecting Mobile Devices From TCP Flooding Attacks
White Papers However, for many new environments, (such as in peer-to-peer networks and certain new scenarios where wireless terminals act as servers) not all unsolicited data can be blocked. In wireline networks, this problem can partially be solved by opening...
[December 21, 2007, 0:01]
