P2P security should be of interest to anyone who wants to protect their personal information and who actively uses the Internet. P2P Security has been a popular research topic for as long as P2P computing came into existence nearly a decade ago. P2P file sharing applications still remain popular and other applications based on P2P networks have gained in popularity. How do you secure your infor...

Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks are distributed data sharing systems with no dedicated and centralized infrastructure. These systems are attractive because they deliver on the Internet’s promise of true decentralization, offering scalability, availability, fault tolerance, robustness, and low barriers to entry. While P2P systems have been used so far mainly for file sharing, their true potential li...

The concept of peer-to-peer (P2P) has known great developments these years in the domains of le sharing, video streaming and distributed databases. Recent advances in microprocessors architecture and networks permit one to consider new applications like distributed high performance computing. However, the implementation of this new type of application on P2P networks gives raise to numerous cha...

Effective data management in today’s competitive enterprise environment is an important issue. Data is information; and information is knowledge. Hence, fast and effective access to data is very important. Replication is one such widely accepted phenomenon in distributed environment, where data is stored at more than one site for performance and reliability reasons. Applications and architectur...

P2P (Peer-to-Peer) overlay is a promising distributed computing and communication paradigm that allows for a group of participants to share information and coordinate their resources. Dissemination of information among end users can also be greatly facilitated by the publish/subscribe model. In this paper, we employ the publish/subscribe model in a P2P mobile tactical networking environment. Co...

Clustering as one of the main branches of data mining, has gained an important place in the different applied fields. On the other hand, Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks with features such as simplicity, low cost communication, and high availability resources, have gained a worldwide popularity in the present days. In P2P network, high volumes of data are distributed between dispersed data sources. ...

Distributed data mining (DDM) consists of mining data using distributed resources. DDM has emerged as a hot research area. Careful attention in the usage of distributed resources of data, computing, communication, storage and human factors in a near optimal fashion are paid by DDM. DDM is gaining attention in Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems which are emerging as a new distributed computing paradigm ...

P2P networks have caught the imagination of the research community and application developers with their sheer scalability and fault-tolerance characteristics. However, only content-sharing applications based on the P2P concept have reached the desired level of maturity. The potential of the P2P concept for designing the next-generation of real-world distributed applications can be realized onl...

In order to improve and deploy distributed control systems for the power grid a robust ICT infrastructure is required partially based on dependable middleware that exploits redundancy and diversity in communication networks. The dynamic nature of power grid applications makes necessity of using peer-to-peer (P2P) networks in this system. The main requirements of P2P networks for power grid are ...

The popularity of video-on-demand (VoD) streaming has grown dramatically over the World Wide Web. Most users in VoD P2P networks have to wait a long time in order to access their requesting videos. Therefore, reducing waiting time to access videos is the main challenge for VoD P2P networks. In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm for caching video based on peers' priority and video's popula...