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 …

Internet usage has drastically shifted from host-centric end-to-end communication to receiver-
driven content retrieval. In order to adapt to this change, a handful of innovative …

As peer-to-peer (P2P) emerges as a major paradigm for scalable network application
design, it also exposes significant new challenges in achieving efficient and fair utilization of …

A method for learning, tracking, and recognizing human gestures using a view-based
approach to model articulated objects is presented. Objects are represented using sets of …

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks enable users to directly share digital content (such as audio,
video, and text files) as well as real-time data (such as telephony traffic) with other users …

Peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing systems generate a major portion of the Internet traffic, and
this portion is expected to increase in the future. We explore the potential of deploying proxy …

Peer-to-peer (P2P) technology, or peer computing, is a paradigm that is viewed as a
potential technology for redesigning distributed architectures and, consequently, distributed …

Peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing systems generate a major portion of the Internet traffic, and
this portion is expected to increase in the future. We explore the potential of deploying proxy …

Today's Internet traffic is dominated by users' demand for exchanging content. In particular,
multi-media content, ie, photos, music, and video, as well as software downloads and …

The emergence of peer-to-peer (P2P) is posing significant new challenges to achieving
efficient and fair utilization of network resources. In particular, without the ability to explicitly …