One of the most striking properties of the Internet is its flexibility to accommodate features it
was not conceived for. Among the most significant examples, in this survey we consider the …

Resource discovery is an important part of any distributed and resource sharing systems,
like Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks. In this paper we provide a comprehensive study and …

Ethereum, the second-largest cryptocurrency valued at a peak of $138 billion in 2018, is a
decentralized, Turing-complete computing platform. Although the stability and security of …

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks enable users to directly share digital content (such as audio,
video, and text files) as well as real-time data (such as telephony traffic) with other users …

Existing digital identity management systems fail to deliver the desirable properties of control
by the users of their own identity data, credibility of disclosed identity data, and network-level …

Distributed hash tables (DHTs) have been actively studied in literature and many different
proposals have been made on how to organize peers in a DHT. However, very few DHTs …

P2P overlay networks have attracted significant research interest due to their utility as
virtualized abstractions of complex network infrastructures, optimized to satisfy specific …

Grid computing systems provide a vast amount of computing resources from multiple
administrative domains to reach a main objective. One of the most important challenges in …

Peer-to-peer computing and networking are important developments for large-scale
distributed systems design and the evolution of Internet architecture. Widely used …

The control, governance, and management of the web have become increasingly
centralised, resulting in security, privacy, and censorship concerns. Decentralised initiatives …