introduction: one of notable initiatives in improving the academic education is to use the abilities of students to learn together in a new and effective system of peer learning. in this regard, education development center in shiraz university of medical sciences proceed to implementation and study of the curriculum and teaching methods course in the form of peer learning for college students ...

Today peer-to-peer applications are widely used for different purposes. People chat, talk, play games, share resources and content using peer-to-peer technology every day. Such peer-to-peer applications as Skype (P2P telephony), ICQ (P2P instant messaging), Kazaa (P2P content sharing) and SETI@home (P2P resource sharing) have enjoyed huge popularity in recent years and are used by millions of p...

The (ultra-)dense deployment of small-cell base stations (SBSs) endowed with cloud-like computing functionalities paves the way for pervasive mobile edge computing (MEC), enabling ultra-low latency and location-awareness for a variety of emerging mobile applications and the Internet of Things. To handle spatially uneven computation workloads in the network, cooperation among SBSs via workload p...

Nowadays Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems became an important part of Internet, millions of users have been attracted to use their structures and services. The popularity of Peer-to-Peer systems speed up academic research joining researchers from systems, networking and theory. The most popular P2P applications support file-sharing and content distribution, new applications are emerging in different ...

Have you noticed how fast Internet traffic is growing lately? It is an amazing statistic for those who havenot. If you just go about your way of hooking up with the Internet and send emails, read news, chat, watch YouTube videos, and interact with your e-buddies on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, get ready to be surprised. The volume of the Internet traffic increased eight times t...