Memcached is a popular component of modern Web architectures, which allows fast
response times-a fundamental performance index for measuring the Quality of Experience of …

The peer-to-peer communication paradigm is changing the way the Internet works, and the
perspective network and service providers are looking at the telecommunication business …

This paper proposes a new methodology to model the distribution of finite size content to a
group of users connected through an overlay network. Our methodology describes the …

This paper describes the ongoing creation of instructional materials for a design-based
research intervention that attempts to integrate humanitarian applications of engineering into …

Content delivery networks (CDN) and peer-to-peer systems currently account for the
transport of a major portion of the Internet traffic. We compare the efficiency of both …

Web penetration testing embodies both the understanding of attack and defense
philosophies. By learning malicious hacking activities, students will understand the …

In this work we present a cost-based memory partitioning and management mechanism for
Memcached, an in-memory key-value store used as Web cache, that is able to dynamically …

Peer-to-peer (P2P) architectures are gaining increasing popularity in disseminating content
to a large number of nodes. In this paper, we show that small coalitions between peers can …

The endeavor of this work is to study the impact of content popularity in a large-scale Peer-to-
Peer network, namely KAD. Based on an extensive measurement campaign, we pinpoint …

The peer-to-peer (P2P) networking paradigm received a lot of attention in recent years. P2P
systems construct an overlay network at the application level and do not require any …