On the Cost of Participating in a Peer-to-Peer Network

In this paper we propose a new practical P2P system based on a full transposition network topology named TRANS-Net. Full transposition networks achieve higher fault-tolerance and lower congestion among the class of transposition networks. TRANS-Net provides an efficient lookup service i.e. k hops with high probability, where k satisfies Theta(log_n m) less than k less than Theta(log_2 m), where m denotes the number of system nodes and n is a system parameter related to the ma...

Despite file-distribution applications are responsible for a major portion of the current Internet traffic, so far little effort has been dedicated to study file distribution from the point of view of energy efficiency. In this paper, we present a first approach at the problem of energy efficiency for file distribution. Specifically, we first demonstrate that the general problem of minimizing energy consumption in file distribution in heterogeneous settings is NP-hard. For ho...

Distributed applications require novel solutions to tackle problems that arise due to the scarcity of resources such as bandwidth, memory and processing power. One of these challenges is seen in distributed data management. The challenge is the two part problem of ensuring that the content is valid when accessed and updating it immediately when changed. This is especially difficult when considering p2p-based distributed online social networks, which aim to build reliable, sec...

Use of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) service networks introduces a new communication paradigm because peers are both clients and servers and so each peer may provide/request services to/from other peers. Empirical studies of P2P networks have been undertaken and reveal useful characteristics. However there is to date little analytical work to describe P2P networks with respect to their communication paradigm and their interconnections. This paper provides an analytical formulation and o...

We propose a new model for peer-to-peer networking which takes the network bottlenecks into account beyond the access. This model allows one to cope with key features of P2P networking like degree or locality constraints or the fact that distant peers often have a smaller rate than nearby peers. We show that the spatial point process describing peers in their steady state then exhibits an interesting repulsion phenomenon. We analyze two asymptotic regimes of the peer-to-peer ...

We present a peer-to-peer (P2P) live-streaming architecture designed to address challenges such as free-riding, malicious peers, churn, and network instability through the integration of a reputation system. The proposed algorithm incentivizes active peer participation while discouraging opportunistic behaviors, with a reputation mechanism that rewards altruistic peers and penalizes free riders and malicious actors. To manage peer dynamics, the algorithm continuously updates ...

Retrieving resources in a distributed environment is more difficult than finding data in centralised databases. In the last decade P2P system arise as new and effective distributed architectures for resource sharing, but searching in such environments could be difficult and time-consuming. In this paper we discuss efficiency of resource discovery in PROSA, a self-organising P2P system heavily inspired by social networks. All routing choices in PROSA are made locally, looking ...

An information-centric network should realize significant economies by exploiting a favourable memory-bandwidth tradeoff: it is cheaper to store copies of popular content close to users than to fetch them repeatedly over the Internet. We evaluate this tradeoff for some simple cache network structures under realistic assumptions concerning the size of the content catalogue and its popularity distribution. Derived cost formulas reveal the relative impact of various cost, traffi...

Storage systems using Peer-to-Peer (P2P) architecture are an alternative to the traditional client-server systems. They offer better scalability and fault tolerance while at the same time eliminate the single point of failure. The nature of P2P storage systems (which consist of heterogeneous nodes) introduce however data placement challenges that create implementation trade-offs (e.g., between performance and scalability). Existing Kademlia-based DHT data placement method sto...

Increasing data volumes requires additional rating techniques. Reputation systems are the subject of much research. There are various techniques to rate content that facilitate the search of quality content. Page rank, citation index and votes from users are some rating examples. In the article I focus on decentralized vote systems. The article reviews several distributed vote designs. I list the distributed vote requirements. A new hybrid algorithm is proposed which operates...