This paper develops analytic models that characterize the behavior of on-demand stored
media content delivery using BitTorrent-like protocols. The models capture the effects of …

We initiate the study of external manipulations in Stable Marriage by considering several
manipulative actions as well as several manipulation goals. For instance, one goal is to …

In recent years a number of research efforts have focused on effective use of P2P-based
systems in providing large scale video streaming services. In particular, live streaming and …

The Stable Roommates problem (SR) is characterized by the preferences of agents over
other agents as roommates: each agent ranks all others in strict order of preference. A …

A substantial amount of work has recently gone into localizing BitTorrent traffic within an ISP
in order to avoid excessive and often times unnecessary transit costs. In this work we aim to …

We introduce a restriction of the stable roommates problem in which roommate pairs are
ranked globally. In contrast to the unrestricted problem, weakly stable matchings are …

In this work we study preference systems suitable for the Peer-to-Peer paradigm. Most of
them fall in one of the three following categories: global, symmetric and complementary. All …

Participants of a decentralized system often use some local ranking informations, for
selection of effective collaborations. We say that such systems are preference-based. For …

Content distribution via the Internet is becoming increasingly popular. To be cost-effective,
commercial content providers are now using peer-to-peer (P2P) protocols such as BitTorrent …

A substantial amount of work has recently gone into localizing BitTorrent traffic within an ISP
in order to avoid excessive and often times unnecessary transit costs. Several architectures …