One of the most striking properties of the Internet is its flexibility to accommodate features it
was not conceived for. Among the most significant examples, in this survey we consider the …

Recent years have witnessed growing consolidation of web operations. For example, the
majority of web traffic now originates from a few organizations, and even micro-websites …

At global user population scale, important microservices in warehouse-scale data centers
can grow to account for an enormous installed base of servers. With the end of Dennard …

This paper addresses the difficult problem of selecting representative samples of peer
properties (eg degree, link bandwidth, number of files shared) in unstructured peer-to-peer …

Distributed hash tables (DHTs) have been actively studied in literature and many different
proposals have been made on how to organize peers in a DHT. However, very few DHT …

Distributed hash tables (DHTs) have been actively studied in literature and many different
proposals have been made on how to organize peers in a DHT. However, very few DHTs …

Distributed hash tables (DHTs) provide scalable, key-based lookup of objects in dynamic
network environments. Although DHTs have been studied extensively from an analytical …

Researchers at the University of Washington recently proposed Vanish [20], a system for
creating messages that automatically “self-destruct” after a period of time. Vanish works by …

Peer-to-peer systems have seen a tremendous growth in the last few years and peer-to-peer
traffic makes a major fraction of the total traffic seen in the Internet. The dominating …

" Botnet" is a network of computers that are compromised and controlled by an attacker.
Botnets are one of the most serious threats to today's Internet. Most current botnets have …