In this paper, we model the cost incurred by each peer participating in a peer-to-peer network. Such a cost model allows to gauge potential disincentives for peers to collaborate,...
The current Internet implements hop-by-hop packet forwarding based entirely on globally-unique identifiers specified in packet headers, and routing tables that identify destinati...
Every distributed system that employs linking requires a Reference Resolution Service (RRS) to convert link references to locations. We argue that the Web’s use of DNS for this ...
Considerable research effort has recently been devoted to the design of structured peer-to-peer overlays, a term we use to encompass Content-Addressable Networks (CANs), Distribut...
As new transactions update data sources and subsequently the data warehouse, the previously discovered association rules in the old database may no longer be interesting rules in ...