Bitcoin and beyond: A technical survey on decentralized digital currencies

F Tschorsch, B Scheuermann - IEEE Communications Surveys …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Besides attracting a billion dollar economy, Bitcoin revolutionized the field of digital
currencies and influenced many adjacent areas. This also induced significant scientific …

A survey and comparison of peer-to-peer overlay network schemes

EK Lua, J Crowcroft, M Pias… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Over the Internet today, computing and communications environments are significantly more
complex and chaotic than classical distributed systems, lacking any centralized organization …

A survey of peer-to-peer content distribution technologies

S Androutsellis-Theotokis, D Spinellis - ACM computing surveys (CSUR), 2004 - dl.acm.org
Distributed computer architectures labeled" peer-to-peer" are designed for the sharing of
computer resources (content, storage, CPU cycles) by direct exchange, rather than requiring …

Making gnutella-like p2p systems scalable

Y Chawathe, S Ratnasamy, L Breslau… - Proceedings of the …, 2003 - dl.acm.org
Napster pioneered the idea of peer-to-peer file sharing, and supported it with a centralized
file search facility. Subsequent P2P systems like Gnutella adopted decentralized search …

Designing a super-peer network

BB Yang, H Garcia-Molina - Proceedings 19th international …, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A super-peer is a node in a peer-to-peer network that operates both as a server to a set of
clients, and as an equal in a network of super-peers. Super-peer networks strike a balance …

[HTML][HTML] Survey of research towards robust peer-to-peer networks: Search methods

J Risson, T Moors - 2007 - rfc-editor.org
RFC 4981: Survey of Research towards Robust Peer-to-Peer Networks: Search Methods [RFC
Home] [TEXT|PDF|HTML] [Tracker] [IPR] [Info page] INFORMATIONAL Network Working Group …

Characterizing unstructured overlay topologies in modern P2P file-sharing systems

D Stutzbach, R Rejaie, S Sen - IEEE/ACM Transactions on …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing systems have evolved to accommodate
growing numbers of participating peers. In particular, new features have changed the …

On the feasibility of peer-to-peer web indexing and search

J Li, BT Loo, JM Hellerstein, MF Kaashoek… - … Workshop on Peer-to …, 2003 - Springer
This paper discusses the feasibility of peer-to-peer full-text keyword search of the Web. Two
classes of keyword search techniques are in use or have been proposed: flooding of queries …

Rationality and self-interest in peer to peer networks

J Shneidman, DC Parkes - International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer …, 2003 - Springer
Much of the existing work in peer to peer networking assumes that users will follow
prescribed protocols without deviation. This assumption ignores the user's ability to modify …

Efficient, proximity-aware load balancing for DHT-based P2P systems

Y Zhu, Y Hu - IEEE Transactions on parallel and distributed …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many solutions have been proposed to tackle the load balancing issue in DHT-based P2P
systems. However, all these solutions either ignore the heterogeneity nature of the system …