BitTorrent, the immensely popular file swarming system, suffers a fundamental problem:
unavailability. Although swarming scales well to tolerate flash crowds for popular content, it …

Typical protocols for peer-to-peer file sharing over the Internet divide files to be shared into
pieces. New peers strive to obtain a complete collection of pieces from other peers and from …

Peer-to-peer (P2P) communication in networks for file distribution and other applications is a
powerful multiplier of network utility, due to its ability to exploit parallelism in a distributed …

This paper studies partial differential equation (PDE) models for the dynamics of peer-to-
peer (P2P) file-sharing networks. Using as independent variables time and a fluid measure …

Given the growing popularity of peer-to-peer file distribution in commercial applications, it is
important to understand the challenges of using p2p file-sharing protocols for file …

It is well known that the main drawback of distributed applications that require high
performance is related to the data transfer speed between system nodes. The high speed …

In peer-to-peer swarming systems, as peers join a swarm to download a content they bring
resources such as bandwidth and memory to the system. That way, the capacity of the …

This paper proposes an open ontology for self-sustainable human settlements in an effort to
set the common language for modelling self-sustainable systems and address the issues …

With the proliferation of cloud services, cloud-based systems can become a cost-effective
means of on-demand content delivery. In order to make best use of the available cloud …

Peer-to-peer swarming protocols have been proven to be very efficient for content
replication over Internet. This fact has certainly motivated proposals to adapt these protocols …