Special Issue: Recent Advances in Peer-to-Peer Systems and Security

Special Issue: Hot Topics in Peer-to-Peer Systems

This special issue of the journal Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience is intended to call further attention to Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems. P2P systems are decentralized, selforganizing distributed systems that cooperate to exchange data. These systems have emerged as the dominant consumer of residential bandwidth, and are being increasingly used in many different application do...

Editorial: Special issue on dependable peer-to-peer systems

As an emerging technology, peer-to-peer (P2P) systems attract attention worldwide, ranging from casual Internet users to venture capitalists. At the same time, innovations of P2P systems also offer many interesting avenues of research for scientific communities. As a major design pattern for future systems opposite to the traditional client-server paradigm, research on P2P networks is extremely...

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Peer-to-Peer Security

Peer-to-peer networks break the dominant network paradigm of client-server relationships in information exchange by allowing heterogeneous multipurpose machines to interact and share functionality. Like any architecture, different systems have different purposes and necessitate different security protections. This chapter will identify several key features of peer-to-peer networks and the secur...

Recent Advances in Large-Scale Peer Grading