From Torrent to Stream

taming the Torrent

[email protected] o v e r t h e pa S t d e c a d e , t h e p e e r -t o peer (P2P) model for building distributed systems has enjoyed incredible success and popularity, forming the basis for a wide variety of important Internet applications such as file sharing, voice-over-IP (VoIP), and video streaming. This success has not been universally welcomed. Internet Service Providers (ISP...

From a Stream of Relational Queries to Distributed Stream Processing

Applications from several domains are now being written to process live data originating from hardware and softwarebased streaming sources. Many of these applications have been written relying solely on database and data warehouse technologies, despite their lack of need for transactional support and ACID properties. In several extreme high-load cases, this approach does not scale to the proces...

Torrent Crawler: a tool for collecting information from BitTorrent networks

BitTorrent is a free peer-to-peer (P2P) content-sharing application with a complex and dynamic overlay structure due to loose coupling, high churn rate, and varying responsiveness of nodes. The complexity and the dynamic nature of the overlay structure can mask the problems in the network, making errors difficult to detect and diagnosis in a timely manner. Furthermore, the heavy reliance of cli...

SIMTorrent: Sensor IMage Torrent

Network Reprogramming of sensor nodes is a necessity, with the explosion in the number of individual sensors being deployed for live experiments as well as in testbeds. Personalized physical reprogramming of large number of nodes is impractical both in terms of manpower cost and the amount of time expended for such purposes. We propose a network reprogramming protocol specifically targeted at d...

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