Several studies show that the lack of access to resources and shared data is one of the main
causes of errors in the healthcare sector. In particular, 3D medical images play a …

The recent surge in popularity of on-line social network applications raises serious concerns
about the security and privacy of their users. Beyond usual vulnerabilities that threaten any …

Social networking services (SNS), which provide the application with the most probably
highest growth rates in the Internet today, raise serious security concerns, especially with …

Blockchains have become the catalyst for a growing movement to create a more
decentralized Internet. A fundamental operation of applications in a decentralized Internet is …

Peer Exchange (PEX), in which peers directly exchange with each other lists of active peers
in the torrent, has been widely implemented in modern BitTorrent clients for decentralized …

Applications such as Second Life require massive deployment of servers worldwide to
support a large number of users. We investigate experimentally how Peer-to-Peer (P2P) …

A Distributed Hash Table (DHT) is a structured overlay network service that provides a
decentralized lookup for mapping objects to locations. In this paper, we study the lookup …

Data silos create barriers to accessing and utilizing data dispersed over networks. Directly
sharing data easily suffers from the long downloading time, the single point failure and the …

Measuring accurate graph snapshots of peer-to-peer (P2P) overlay networks is essential to
understand these systems. Furthermore, the captured graph snapshots can be used, among …

In this paper we present the results we obtained by crawling the DHT of the BitTorrent client
AZUREUS for several months. Before this study we crawled the DHT KAD that is used by the …