The IETF P2PSIP WG is currently standardising a protocol for distributed multimedia services combining the media session functionality of SIP and the decentralised distribution and localisation of resources in peer-to-peer networks. The current P2PSIP scenarios only consider the infrastructure for the connectivity inside a single domain. This paper proposes an extension of the current work to a...

Since the appearance of Peer-To-Peer (P2P) file-sharing networks some time ago, many Internet users have chosen this technology to share and search programs, videos, music, documents, etc. The total number of P2P file-sharing users has been increasing and decreasing in the last decade depending on the creation or end of some well known P2P file-sharing systems. P2P file-sharing networks traffic...

Major international law-enforcement initiatives are underway to fight the distribution of illegal pornography via the Internet. In this paper we examine the role of peerto-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks in illegal pornography distribution. First, we investigate the contention that these networks are especially implicated in illegal pornography distribution. Our finding is that this convention...

Overlay networks, such as P2P, Grid, and CDN, have been widely deployed over physical IP networks. Since simultaneous overlay networks compete for network resources, their selfish behaviors to improve their application-oriented QoS disrupt each other. To enhance the collective performance and improve the QoS at the application level, we consider so-called the overlay network symbiosis where ove...

This paper establishes an objective and comprehensive evaluation index system of online P2P lending platforms based on the online P2P lending theory with the Analytic Hierarchy Process in the perspective of lenders. It also makes the empirical analysis which takes ten P2P platforms as examples. The results show that the evaluation system is scientific and reasonable, which can provide reference...

Gender discrimination in accessing financial resources is a mounting concern in developing countries, but empirical evidence of such discrimination is limited. Using data collected from PPdai.com, one of the largest P2P lending platforms in China, we investigate potential gender discrimination in online P2P credit lending market in China. The results illustrate that female borrowers are more li...