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 …

Distributed and Cloud Computing: From Parallel Processing to the Internet of Things offers
complete coverage of modern distributed computing technology including clusters, the grid …

The reliability measures in today's disk drive-based storage systems focus predominantly on
protecting against complete disk failures. Previous disk reliability studies have analyzed …

A fundamental problem with many peer-to-peer systems is the tendency for users to “free
ride”—to consume resources without contributing to the system. The popular file distribution …

A simple yet remarkably powerful tool of selfish and malicious participants in a distributed
system is “equivocation”: making conflicting statements to others. We present TrInc, a small …

Federated learning is a recently proposed paradigm that enables multiple clients to
collaboratively train a joint model. It allows clients to train models locally, and leverages the …

Peer-to-peer protocols play an increasingly instrumental role in Internet content distribution.
It is therefore important to gain a complete understanding of how these protocols behave in …

Incentives play a crucial role in BitTorrent, motivating users to upload to others to achieve
fast download times for all peers. Though long believed to be robust to strategic …

BitTorrent is the most successful open Internet application for content distribution. Despite its
importance, both in terms of its footprint in the Internet and the influence it has on emerging …

This paper presents an experimental study on the behavior of BitTorrent networks when
selfish peers attempt to maintain high download rates without uploading. We modified a …