—In its current art, peer-to-peer streaming solution has been mainly employed in the domain of live event broadcasting. In such a paradigm, users are required to simultaneously p...
We believe this paper is the first extensive user-study of whitelisting email addresses. While whitelists are common in social networking and instant messaging (e.g., buddylists),...
Abstract. Features provide extensions to a basic service, but in new systems users require much greater flexibility oriented towards their needs. Traditional features do not easil...
We describe the implementation and experimental evaluation of a fault-tolerant leader election service for dynamic systems. Intuitively, distributed applications can use this serv...
Abstract Charging schemes are needed to protect an integrated services network from arbitrary resource reservations and to create a funding mechanism to extend network capacity at ...
Martin Karsten, Jens Schmitt, Lars C. Wolf, Ralf S...