The emergence of Internet of Things (IoT) is empowered by the availability of the high
volume of smart sensors, Radio Frequency Identification, a suitable communication …

Peer-assisted content delivery networks have recently emerged as an economically viable
alternative to traditional content delivery approaches: the feasibility studies conducted for …

We introduce the area of remote physical device fingerprinting, or fingerprinting a physical
device, as opposed to an operating system or class of devices, remotely, and without the …

Smartphone users have their own unique behavioral patterns when tap** on the touch
screens. These personal patterns are reflected on the different rhythm, strength, and angle …

In tree-based multicast systems, a relatively small number of interior nodes carry the load of
forwarding multicast messages. This works well when the interior nodes are highly …

The dynamics of peer participation, or churn, are an inherent property of Peer-to-Peer (P2P)
systems and critical for design and evaluation. Accurately characterizing churn requires …

Of the many P2P file-sharing prototypes in existence, BitTorrent is one of the few that has
managed to attract millions of users. BitTorrent relies on other (global) components for file …

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 …

Since the emergence of peer-to-peer (P2P) networking in the late'90s, P2P applications
have multiplied, evolved and established themselves as the leadinggrowth app'of Internet …

This paper addresses the problem of churn--the continuous process of node arrival and
departure--in distributed hash tables (DHTs). We argue that DHTs should perform lookups …