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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 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 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]
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]
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 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]
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 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]
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]
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]
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]
An Analysis of the Skype Peer-to-Peer Internet Telephony Protocol
White Papers Skype is a peer-to-peer VoIP client developed by KaZaa. Skype claims that it can work almost seamlessly across NATs and firewalls and has better voice quality than the MSN and Yahoo IM applications. It encrypts calls end-to-end, and stores user...
[April 26, 2008, 1:02]
A Peer-to-Peer Architecture for Media Streaming
White Papers Given the fact that the current Internet does not widely support IP Multicast while content-distribution-networks technologies are costly, the concept of peer-to-peer could be a promising start for enabling large-scale streaming systems.
[February 1, 2009, 0:00]
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]
Deleting Files in the Celeste Peer-to-Peer Storage System
White Papers Celeste is a robust peer-to-peer object store built on top of a Distributed Hash Table (DHT). Celeste is a working system, developed by Sun Microsystems Laboratories. During the development of Celeste, it faced the challenge of complete object...
[May 11, 2007, 1:00]
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]
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]
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]
