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We are pleased to announce that two special issues on peer to peer computing have been published in Computer Communications. Volume 31, Issues 2 & 3 are freely available online.* Click on the links below to access the full-text articles.


Volume 31, Issue 2 (5 February 2008)
Special Issue: Foundation of Peer-to-Peer Computing
Edited by Javed I. Khan and Adam Wierzbicki

Special Issue Papers:

Analysis of hybrid P2P overlay network topology
Chao Xie, Guihai Chen, Art Vandenberg and Yi Pan

Bandwidth trading in BitTorrent-like P2P networks for content distribution
Kolja Eger and Ulrich Killat

Global stability of Peer-to-Peer file sharing systems
Dongyu Qiu and Weiqian Sang

Stochastic analysis of the interplay between object maintenance and churn
Di Wu, Ye Tian, Kam-Wing Ng and Anwitaman Datta

A connection management protocol for promoting cooperation in Peer-to-Peer networks
Murat Karakaya, Ibrahim Körpeoglu and Özgür Ulusoy

Bandwidth allocation in peer-to-peer file sharing networks
Albert Creus-Mir, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Andres Hervas-Drane

Secure content access and replication in pure P2P networks
Esther Palomar, Juan M.E. Tapiador, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro and Arturo Ribagorda

Range queries on structured overlay networks
Thorsten Schütt, Florian Schintke and Alexander Reinefeld

Scalable blind search and broadcasting over Distributed Hash Tables
Vladimir Vishnevsky, Alexander Safonov, Mikhail Yakimov, Eunsoo Shim and Alexander D. Gelman

Efficient file search in non-DHT P2P networks Shiping
Chen, Zhan Zhang, Shigang Chen and Baile Shi

A dynamic routing protocol for keyword search in unstructured peer-to-peer networks
Cong Shi, Dingyi Han, Yuanjie Liu, Shicong Meng and Yong Yu

Partial read from peer-to-peer databases
Farnoush Banaei-Kashani and Cyrus Shahabi

Hierarchical multidimensional search in peer-to-peer networks
D.A. Tran and T. Nguyen

Range queries over skip tree graphs
A. González-Beltrán, P. Milligan and P. Sage

Comparison of image similarity queries in P2P systems
Wolfgang Müller, P. Oscar Boykin, Vwani P. Roychowdhury and Nima Sarshar

A framework for P2P application development
James Walkerdine, Danny Hughes, Paul Rayson, John Simms, Kiel Gilleade, John Mariani and Ian Sommerville

Overlay Weaver: An overlay construction toolkit
Kazuyuki Shudo, Yoshio Tanaka and Satoshi Sekiguchi

 

Volume 31, Issue 3 (25 February 2008)
Special Issue: Disruptive networking with peer-to-peer systems
Edited by Javed I. Khan and Adam Wierzbicki

Special Issue Papers:

Scalable tag search in social network applications
Alberto Mozo and Joaquín Salvachúa

SPICE: Scalable P2P implicit group messaging
Daniel Cutting, Aaron Quigley and Björn Landfeldt

Exploiting parallelism in the design of peer-to-peer overlays
John Buford, Alan Brown and Mario Kolberg

Scalable multicasting with network-aware geometric overlay
Eng Keong Lua, Xiaoming Zhou, Jon Crowcroft and Piet Van Mieghem

Multicast algorithms in service overlay networks
Dario Pompili, Caterina Scoglio and Luca Lopez

Robust video-on-demand streaming in peer-to-peer environments
Tai T. Do, Kien A. Hua and Mounir A. Tantaoui

DirectStream: A directory-based peer-to-peer video streaming service
Yang Guo, Kyoungwon Suh, Jim Kurose and Don Towsley

Minimum DVS gateway deployment in DVS-based overlay streaming
Sang-Seon Byun and Chuck Yoo

An optimal discrete rate allocation for overlay video multicasting
B. Akbari, H.R. Rabiee and M. Ghanbari

SecureStream: An intrusion-tolerant protocol for live-streaming dissemination
Maya Haridasan and Robbert van Renesse

On hierarchical DHT systems - An analytical approach for optimal designs
Stefan Zoels, Zoran Despotovic and Wolfgang Kellerer

CBT: A proximity-aware peer clustering system in large-scale BitTorrent-like peer-to-peer networks
Jiadi Yu and Minglu Li

Stochastic maintenance of overlays in structured P2P systems
Peter Kersch, Robert Szabo, Lawrence Cheng, Kerry Jean and Alex Galis

Emerging structures of P2P networks induced by social relationships
Vincenza Carchiolo, Michele Malgeri, Giuseppe Mangioni and Vincenzo Nicosia

Computing with data non-determinism: Wait time management for peer-to-peer systems Javed I. Khan and Asrar U. Haque

Designing structured peer-to-peer overlays as a platform for distributed network applications in mobile ad hoc networks
Thomas Zahn and Jochen Schiller

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*Free access to articles in Volume 31, Issues 2 & 3 of Computer Communications is available until 30th June 2008. After this date your institution must have a subscription to ScienceDirect in order to access the full-text articles.

 

   




Editor-in-Chief
J.B. Thompson
Leicester, UK

Co-Editor-in-Chief
M. Atiquzzaman
University of Oklahoma, USA

   


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