Location is rapidly becoming the next “killer application” as location-enabled mobile handheld devices proliferate. One class of applications that has yet-to-emerge are those ...
Many consumers are misled into paying high prices due to the search costs associated with attaining price information [16]. The popularity of bargain-hunting web sites like Slickd...
Sybil attack is one of the most challenging problems that plague current decentralized Peer-to-Peer systems. In Sybil attack, a single malicious user creates multiple peer identit...
Distributed systems such as Peer-to-Peer overlays have been shown to efficiently support the processing of range queries over large numbers of participating hosts. In such system...
Ioannis Konstantinou, Dimitrios Tsoumakos, Nectari...
—Characterizing user churn has become an important topic in studying P2P networks, both in theoretical analysis and system design. Recent work [26] has shown that direct sampling...