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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 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
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]
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 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]
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 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 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]
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]
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]
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]
Verifying Data Integrity in Peer-to-Peer Media Streaming
White Papers The paper studies data integrity verification in peer-to-peer media streaming for content distribution. The paper then proposes Tree-based Forward Digest Protocol (TFDP) to further reduce the communication overhead.
[October 22, 2008, 1:01]
Selection Strategies for Peer-to-Peer 3D Streaming
White Papers As existing client-server architectures may not scale easily, 3D streaming based on Peer-to-Peer (P2P) delivery is recently proposed to allow users to acquire 3D content from other users instead of the server.
[October 22, 2008, 1:01]
Congestion-Distortion Optimized Peer-to-Peer Video Streaming
White Papers In live peer-to-peer streaming, a video stream is transmitted to a large population of viewers, through the use of the uplink bandwidth of participating peers. In this work the paper focuses on limiting the congestion in a peer-to-peer network...
[October 22, 2008, 1:01]
The Progression of WiMAX Toward a Peer-to-Peer Paradigm Shift
White Papers Considering the current constellation of the Internet Service Providers (ISPs), WiMAX can both improve its presence (by offering broadband connectivity where previously unavailable) and trim down its authority (if used as an instrument for ad hoc...
[April 22, 2009, 1:24]
Experimental Analysis of the Impact of Peer-to-Peer Applications on Traffic in Commercial IP Networks
White Papers To evaluate the impact of peer-to-peer applications on traffic in wide area networks, the paper analyzes measurements from a high speed IP backbone link carrying TCP traffic towards several ADSL areas.
[December 6, 2007, 0:01]
