A novel solution to the reliable multicast problem is the “digital fountain” approach, in which data is encoded with an erasure protection code before transmission, and receiv...
While peer-to-peer (P2P) has emerged as a new hot communication concept among the Internet users, mobile usage of P2P applications is still taking its first steps. This article fi...
Erkki Harjula, Mika Ylianttila, Jussi Ala-Kurikka,...
Lack of cooperation (free riding) is one of the key problems that confronts today’s P2P systems. What makes this problem particularly difficult is the unique set of challenges ...
Michal Feldman, Kevin Lai, Ion Stoica, John Chuang
Many network applications that need to distribute content and data to a large number of clients use a hybrid scheme in which one (or more) multicast channel is used in parallel to...
Nowadays, large distributed databases are commonplace. Client applications increasingly rely on accessing objects from multiple remote hosts. The Internet itself is a huge network ...