Multimedia content currently accounts for over three quarters of all Internet traffic. This increase in traffic volume and content availability derives from a paradigm shift from the traditional text and picture based Web, to more resource demanding audio and video content. A controversial driver for this development is content distribution systems based on peer-to-peer overlay networks. Floodi...

a water distribution network is subjected to various abnormal conditions such as pipe breaks, pump failures, excessive demands etc. in the design period. under such conditions, the network may not be able to meet required demands at desired pressures, and becomes deficient. traditional network analysis assumes nodal demands to be satisfied and available nodal pressures are calculated. however, ...

Conventional passive distribution networks are changing to modern active distribution networks which are not radial. Conventional load flow methods should be modified for new distribution networks analysis. In modern distribution networks distributed generation (DG) units are embedded with conventional and/or renewable resources. DG units are generally modeled as PV or PQ nodes which inject ...

In this article we describe a taxonomy for content networks and suggest new architectures for such networks. In recent years, many types of content networks have been developed in various contexts, including peer-to-peer networks [8][12][16][27][31][37][49], cooperative Web caching [3][47], content distribution networks [2][7][10], subscribe-publish networks [6][52], and content-based sensor ne...

DHT (Distributed Hash Table) is a structured overlay network that is widely utilized in P2P systems. Existing content distribution approaches do not completely exploit features of DHT and incur heavy network bandwidth consumption. This paper analyzes existing content distribution approaches including synchronous content distribution method in eMule based on DHT overlay networks and points out t...

Peer-to-Peer networks attracted a significant amount of interest because of their capacity for resource sharing and content distribution. Content distribution applications allow personal computers to function in a coordinated manner as a distributed storage medium by contributing, searching, and obtaining digital content. Searching in unstructured P2P networks is an important problem, which has...

Peer-to-peer (P2P) content exchange has recently gained attention from both the research and industrial communities. The dynamic nature of peer networks and the resource constraints of peer hosts have introduced a number of unique technical challenges that must be addressed to make large-scale P2P content exchange applications more efficient. In this work, we expand our previous work on Pixie, ...

application of distributed generation (dg) units in distribution networks has increased in recent years. sizing and sitting of dg units are two important factors which should be considered, especially for reduction of power losses in distribution system. this paper presents a new approach for dg placement in distribution systems using the mixed integer nonlinear programming (minlp). this approa...