many file sharing systems exists today. The abundance of content on the web is in itself a huge problem to comprehend. The existence and wide scale use of peer-to-peer file sharing systems, which let users share files, folders, directors to entire drives makes the problem of finding relevant information a daunting task. With the increasing number of file sharing systems, there are challenges in...

There is an increased interest, by content creators and owners, in content protection systems that provide the ability to control or restrict the content that can be shared on peer-to-peer file sharing systems. At the same time, there is much debate that argues that content protection in peer-to-peer systems will unfairly restrict the users’ ability to share content. We explore the issue of con...

Zage, David J. Ph.D., Purdue University, May 2010. A Platform for Creating Efficient, Robust, and Resilient Peer-to-Peer Systems. Major Professor: Cristina Nita-Rotaru. The rapid growth of communication environments such as the Internet has spurred the development of a wide range of systems and applications based on peer-to-peer ideologies. As these applications continue to evolve, there is an ...

The paper analyzes four different content delivery systems from the arena of client-server oriented world-wide web, content delivery networks and peer-to-peer file sharing systems. The important features of peer-to-peer systems are symmetry among the peers (since they behave as both servers and clients) and scalability up to as many as millions of machines. Dynamic membership, wide-area network...

Zage, David J. Ph.D., Purdue University, May 2010. A Platform for Creating Efficient, Robust, and Resilient Peer-to-Peer Systems. Major Professor: Cristina Nita-Rotaru. The rapid growth of communication environments such as the Internet has spurred the development of a wide range of systems and applications based on peer-to-peer ideologies. As these applications continue to evolve, there is an ...

Peer to peer systems have become a popular area of distributed systems research over the past few years, reflecting both the widespread use of systems like BitTorrent [5] and the emerging commercial potential of peer to peer systems for a variety of applications well beyond file sharing [4, 14, 20, 21, 22]. This line of research has resulted in substantial progress in understanding system behav...

Peer-to-peer systems have gained a lot of attention as information sharing systems for the wide-spread exchange of resources and voluminous information among thousands of users. However, current peer-to-peer information sharing systems work mostly on wired networks. With the growing number of communication-equipped mobile devices that can self-organize into infrastructure-less communication pla...

This paper copes with the problem of integrating peer-to-peer and multi-agent systems for the realization of both large-scale multi-agent systems and sophisticated peer-to-peer applications. In particular, it presents how JADE, one of the best known and most used software framework for the development of multi-agent systems, has been extended with a peer-to-peer technology, and how a JADE multi...

Changes to lower layers of the Internet architecture are difficult, in particular on network and transport layer. Standardization and economic incentives for manufacturers and Internet service providers are necessary. As a consequence, many desirable services cannot be realized there. The application layer is more flexible. End-users can run their own services and networked applications. This l...

In peer-to-peer inference systems, each peer can reason locally but also solicit some of its acquaintances, sharing part of its vocabulary. This paper studies both theoretically and experimentally the problem of computing proper prime implicates for propositional peer-to-peer systems, the global theory (union of all peer theories) of which is not known (as opposed to partition-based reasoning).