Despite the immense potential of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks in facilitating collaborative applications, they have become largely known as a free haven for pirated music swapping....
Abstract. A MAC protocol specifies how nodes in a sensor network access a shared communication channel. Desired properties of such MAC protocol are: it should be distributed and c...
Costas Busch, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Fikret Sivrikay...
1 Today many safety-critical applications are based on distributed systems where several computing nodes exchange information via suitable network interconnections. An example of t...
Peer-to-peer computing paradigm is emerging as a scalable and robust model for sharing media objects. In this paper, we propose an architecture and describe the associated algorit...
Internet topology information is only made available in aggregate form by standard routing protocols. Connectivity information and latency characteristicsmust therefore be inferre...