Abstract. We introduce a user-empowered UDP packet reflector to create virtual multicasting environments as an overlay on top of current unicast networks. The end-users’ ability...
—The initial phase in a content distribution (file sharing) scenario is delicate due to the lack of global knowledge and the dynamics of the overlay. An unwise distribution of t...
Flavio Esposito, Ibrahim Matta, Pietro Michiardi, ...
Existing techniques for keyword/attribute search in structured P2P overlays suffer from several problems: unbalanced load, hot spots, fault tolerance, storage redundancy, and unab...
In this paper, we propose a hierarchical architecture for grouping peers into clusters in a large-scale BitTorrent-like underlying overlay network in such a way that clusters are e...
P2P systems represent a large portion of the Internet traffic which makes the data discovery of great importance to the user and the broad Internet community. Hence, the power of ...