Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks are gaining increasing popularity in many distributed applications such as file-sharing, network storage, web caching, searching and indexing of relevant documents and P2P network-threat analysis. Many of these applications require scalable analysis of data over a P2P network. This paper starts by offering a brief overview of distributed data mining applications and ...

In this paper, we address the load balancing problem in the context of peer-to-peer computing environments. The key challenge to employ peer-to-peer networks for distributed computing is to exploit the heterogeneous processing capability of the participating hosts as well as the diverse network conditions. The contribution of our work is twofold. First, we model the load balance problem as an o...

Peer-to-peer (P2P) technology has triggered a wide range of distributed applications including file-sharing, distributed XML databases, distributed computing, server-less web publishing and networked resource/service sharing. Despite of the diversity in application, these systems share common requirements for searching due to transitory nodes population and content volatility. In such dynamic e...

During the last few years, the topic of peer-to-peer networking (P2P hereafter) has gained significant attention from the research community. The focus has mainly been on the design, implementation and evaluation of systems based on Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs), as these structures have potential to become a general purpose substrate for distributed applications. Nonetheless, there are still ...

With the fast development of networking, the demands made of computers are greater than ever before. Determining how to utilize the resources of networking to reach the objective of cooperative computing has remained an important topic in recent years. In addition, with the great advances in technology of the Internet, Peer-to-Peer (or P2P) computing has gradually become the mainstream of distr...

TCP and TCP-friendly rate control protocols, designed for unicast, do not take neighbor connections into account in P2P networks. In this paper, we study the topic of distributed and optimal rate control for scalable video streams in P2P streaming applications. First, we propose a fully distributed and TCPfriendly network analytical model for rate control and formulate an optimization problem t...

RDF-based P2P networks have a number of advantages compared to simpler P2P networks such as Napster, Gnutella or to approaches based on distributed indices on binary keys such as CAN and CHORD. RDF-based P2P networks allow complex and extendable descriptions of resources instead of fixed and limited ones, and they provide complex query facilities against these metadata instead of simple keyword...

Current peer-to-peer (P2P) networks are well defined in their communicating and collaborating mechanisms – search, share, and retrieve information – especially when there is a centralized management server. However, these operations provide no convenient security mechanisms for serverless networks. This paper examines a security hardening approach to limit or prevent identifier attacks between ...

This paper presents our on-going research into selforganizing and self-healing networks of resource brokers, for use in complex Peer-to-Peer (P2P) resource sharing and Grid computing application environments. It discusses our objectives for an efficient, robust, and decentrally controlled infrastructure, and describes our efforts to understand the co-dependencies between protocols, topologies, ...

This paper deals with a Role based Trust (RT) model for Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks. P2P networks are essentially decentralized in nature to enhance resource sharing and collaboration. The anonymous and open nature of P2P systems offers an almost ideal environment for unauthorized access of digital content and also for easy distribution of malware. Today’s popular P2P systems have to challenge ...