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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]
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]
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]
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]
Chedar: Peer-to-Peer Middleware
White Papers This paper present a new peer-to-peer (P2P) middleware called CHEap Distributed ARchitecture (Chedar). Currently Chedar combines four different topology management algorithms and provides functionality to monitor how the peer-to-peer network is...
[January 1, 2009, 23:00]
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 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 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]
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 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 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]
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]
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]
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. Nowadays mobile devices are growing in number and computational resources.
[August 13, 2007, 8:09]
Groove updates peer-to-peer software
News Peer-to-peer software specialist Groove Networks on Monday will release a new version of its collaboration and instant messaging software. Ozzie unveiled the first version of the Groove software in Ocotober 2000, combining communication functions...
[April 11, 2002, 9:12]
A Peer-to-Peer On-Demand Streaming Service and Its Performance Evaluation
White Papers This paper proposes DirectStream, a directory based peer-to-peer video streaming service that efficiently and cost-effectively provides video on-demand service with VCR operation support. The paper proposes a QoS parent selection algorithm to...
[October 22, 2008, 1:01]
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]
Mobile Chedar - A Peer-to-Peer Middleware for Mobile Devices
White Papers This paper presents the Mobile Chedar Peer-to-Peer middleware for mobile peer-to-peer applications. 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...
[March 16, 2009, 4:48]
Sun aims at peer-to-peer search with acquisition
News Sun Microsystems gave a first indication, last Tuesday, of plans for its new peer-to-peer initiative, by buying a small start-up that is building a new kind of search engine. Jxta, although still in the early stages, is designed to be a standard...
[March 7, 2001, 9:42]
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]
