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Fair Exchange with Guardian Angels

In this paper we propose a new probabilistic Fair Exchange Protocol which requires no central Trusted Third Party. Instead, it relies on a virtually distributed and decentralized Trusted Third Party which is formalized as a Guardian Angel: a kind of Observ ...

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Lazy Parameter Passing

Patrick Eugster

Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems are strongly decentralized and asynchronous distributed settings involving a potentially large number of hosts. A common programing model for P2P infrastructures is that of a distributed hashtable (DHT), though which peers share ...

2003

A Decentralized Architecture for Adaptive Media Dissemination

Karl Aberer, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux

P2P content distribution networks have become extremely popular on the Internet. Due to their self-organization properties, they suffer from the lack of control to balance the load among peers for contents of different popularity. In this paper, we define ...

2002

Opus: an overlay peer utility service

Dejan Kostic

Today, an increasing number of important network services, such as content distribution, replicated services, and storage systems, are deploying overlays across multiple Internet sites to deliver better performance, reliability and adaptability. Currently ...

IEEE2002

Managing Trust in a Peer-2-Peer Information System

Karl Aberer, Zoran Despotovic

Managing trust is a problem of particular importance in peer-to-peer environments as one encounters frequently unknown agents. Existing methods for trust management based on reputation do however not scale as they rely on some form of central database or g ...

2001

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