Decentralization has been touted as the principal security advantage which propelled
blockchain systems at the forefront of developments in the financial technology space. Its …

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) overlays provide a framework for building distributed applications
consisting of few to many resources with features including self-configuration, scalability …

Cryptocurrencies are digital assets which depend upon the use of distributed peer-to-peer
networks. The method a new peer uses to initially join a peer-to-peer network is known as …

As with any other emerging system, the analysis of the security of Peer-to-Peer Session
Initiation Protocol systems is of crucial importance for its secure development and future …

Peer-to-peer (P2P) and cloud computing, two of the Internet trends of the last decade, hold
similar promises: the (virtually) infinite availability of computing and storage resources. But …

Existing peer-to-peer overlay approaches for location-based search have proven to be a
valid alternative to client-server-based schemes. One of the key issues of the peer-to-peer …

Blockchains use peer-to-peer networks for disseminating information among peers, but
these networks currently do not have any provable guarantees for desirable properties such …

The research community is seeking for novel technological/business models to speed up the
decarbonization process, ie a decreasing relative reliance on carbon. The completion of …

GNUnet is an alternative network stack for building secure, decentralized and privacy-
preserving distributed applications. Our goal is to replace the old insecure Internet protocol …

In this paper, we develop an analytical framework which explains the emergence of
superpeer networks on execution of the commercial peer-to-peer bootstrapping protocols by …