Many large real-world networks actually have a two-mode nature: their nodes may be
separated into two classes, the links being between nodes of different classes only. Despite …

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 …

The decentralized peer-to-peer (P2P) technique has been widely used to implement
scalable file sharing systems. It organizes nodes in a system into a structured or …

P2P file-sharing systems have indexes, which users search to find locations of desired titles.
In the index poisoning attack, the attacker inserts massive numbers of bogus records into the …

Copyright holders have been investigating technological solutions to prevent distribution of
copyrighted materials in peer-to-peer file sharing networks. A particularly popular technique …

It has been reported worldwide that peer-to-peer traffic is taking up a significant portion of
backbone networks. In particular, it is prominent in Japan because of the high penetration …

Background Patient-centered health care information systems (PHSs) enable patients to
take control and become knowledgeable about their own health, preferably in a secure …

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 …

A lot of recent research on content-based P2P searching for file-sharing applications has
focused on exploiting semantic relations between peers to facilitate searching. To the best of …

We present a comparison of structured and unstructured overlays that decouples overlay
topology maintenance from query mechanism. Structured overlays provide efficient support …