The dynamics of peer participation, or churn, are an inherent property of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems and critical for design and evaluation. Accurately characterizing churn requir...
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Aaditeshwar Seth, D. Kroeker, Matei A. Zaharia, Sh...
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Over the last several years, there has been an emerging interest in the development of widearea data collection and analysis centers to help identify, track, and formulate respons...