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Peer-to-Peer Behaviour Detection by TCP Flows Analysis
White Papers The use of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) applications is growing dramatically. So, it became important for ISPs to detect these applications. Main goal of this work is to use knowledge about TCP flows on routers (Cisco's NetFlow) to identify P2P users and flows.
[December 27, 2007, 0:01]
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 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]
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 networks carry surprising cargo
Talkback You don't know what you're getting with peer to peer. 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 distributor.
[August 11, 2004, 10:25]
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]
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]
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]
Peer-to-peer battle gets personal
News Until now, the entertainment industry has relied on civil lawsuits aimed at companies, not individuals, to limit widespread copyright infringement on peer-to-peer networks. The new plan appears to extend the target beyond companies with an apparent...
[August 13, 2002, 15:44]
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]
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]
LOBS: Load Balancing for Similarity Peer-to-Peer Structures
White Papers The peer-to-peer structures seem to be a suitable solution for content-based retrieval in huge data collections. Since no current load-balancing techniques are designed for this task, the paper proposes LOBS - a novel and general system for load...
[July 10, 2008, 1:01]
Cooperative Peer-to-Peer Repair for Wireless Multimedia Broadcast
White Papers This paper explores how to leverage IEEE802.11- based Cooperative Peer-to-peer Repair (CPR) to enhance the reliability of wireless multimedia broadcasting. The paper first formulates the CPR problem and presents an algorithm that assumes global...
[August 25, 2007, 1:00]
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]
A Measurement-Based Study of the Skype Peer-to-Peer VoIP Performance
White Papers It has been increasingly popular to build VoiceoverIP (VoIP) applications based on Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks in the Internet. Thus their success may come at a cost to ISPs, especially those on the edge of the Internet.
[May 23, 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]
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]
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]
