An Internet flash crowd (also known as hot spots) is a phenomenon that results from a
sudden, unpredicted increase in an on-line object's popularity. Currently, there is no efficient
means within the Internet to deliver Web objects scalably under hot spot conditions to all
clients that desire the object. We present peer-to-peer (P2P) randomized overlays to obviate
flash-crowd symptoms (PROOFS), a simple, lightweight, P2P approach that uses
randomized overlay construction and randomized, scoped searches to locate and deliver …

Internet flash crowds (aka hot spots) are a phenomenon that result from a sudden,
unpredicted increase in an on-line object's popularity. Currently, there is no efficient means
within the Internet to scalably deliver Web objects under hot spot conditions to all clients that
desire the object. We present PROOFS: a simple, lightweight, peer-to-peer (P2P) approach
that uses randomized overlay construction and randomized, scoped searches to efficiently
locate and deliver objects under heavy demand to all users that desire them. We evaluate …