Providing video on demand (VoD) service over the Internet in a scalable way is a challenging problem. In this paper, we propose P2Cast - an architecture that uses a peer-to-peer a...
Yang Guo, Kyoungwon Suh, James F. Kurose, Donald F...
The abuse of online games by automated programs, known as game bots, for gaining unfair advantages has plagued millions of participating players with escalating severity in recent...
Steven Gianvecchio, Zhenyu Wu, Mengjun Xie, Hainin...
File sharing using peer-to-peer (p2p) systems is a major Internet application and the leading source of network traffic today. However, the dominance of p2p systems for file sha...
Demetres Antoniades, Evangelos P. Markatos, Consta...
As more and more video content is made available and accessed on-demand, content and service providers face challenges of scale. Today’s delivery mechanisms, especially unicast,...
Vaneet Aggarwal, A. Robert Calderbank, Vijay Gopal...
While some empirical studies on Online Social Networks (OSNs) have examined the growth of these systems, little is known about the patterns of decline in user population or user a...