File-sharing has become very popular in recent years, but for many this has become synonymous with file-acquisition. However, there is strong evidence that people have strong giving (or gifting) desires. This suggests an opportunity for the development of gifting technologies – and it also suggests an important research challenge: what needs and concerns do gifters have and what technologies ca...

Mobile networks differ from their wireline counterparts mainly by the high costs for air transmissions and by the mobility of the users. A new entity, denoted as the crawling peer, is suggested in order to optimize the resource mediation mechanism for a mobile P2P file sharing application. In [1], we have investigated the performance of a crawling peer by means of simulations. Now, we show a ti...

Safe file sharing mechanism in cloud storage is one of the most significant elements that affects the development of security technology. With application of homomorphic key agreement mechanism, Shamir secret sharing algorithm, Bloom Filter and B-tree search algorithm and Rsync data updating algorithm, a safe file sharing scheme in cloud storage is established based on cloud storage infrastruct...

In recent years, peer-to-peer file sharing has been a hotly debated topic in the fields of computer science, the music industry, and the movie industry. The purpose of this research was to examine the user behavior of peer-to-peer file-sharing software. A methodology of naturalistic inquiry that involved qualitative interviews was used to collect data from 21 university students in Taiwan. The ...

With rapid growth of producing high-resolution digital contents such as Full HD, 4K, and 8K movies, the demand for low cost and high throughput sharing of content files is increasing at digital content productions. In order to meet this demand, we have proposed DRIP (Distributed chunks Retrieval and Integration Procedure), a storage and retrieval mechanism for large file sharing using forward e...

Resources monitoring is an important problem of the overall efficient usage and control of P2P file-sharing systems. The resources of file-sharing systems can include all distributing servers, programs and peers. Several researches have tried to address this issue, but most of them illuminated P2P traffic characterization, identification and user behavior. Based on previous work, we present a r...

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...

P2P file sharing provides a powerful content distribution model by leveraging users’ computing and bandwidth resources. However, companies have been reluctant to rely on P2P systems for paid content distribution due to their inability to limit the exploitation of these systems for free file sharing. We present TP2, a system that combines the more cost-effective and scalable distribution capabil...

Virtual machine (VM) systems have traditionally used virtual disks for file storage. Recently, there has been interest in using distributed file systems as a way to provide data storage to guest virtual machines, with the file server running on the same physical machine. Potential advantages include finegrained data sharing, data protection, versioning, and backup to multiple guests from one ce...