Peer-to-Peer (P2P) reputation systems are essential to evaluate the trustworthiness of
participating peers and to combat the selfish, dishonest, and malicious peer behaviors. The …

The emergence of distributed energy has led to a change in the role of the consumer in the
traditional sense over the past decade. The proliferation of emerging generators and …

Large-scale distributed computing environments provide a vast amount of heterogeneous
computing resources from different sources for resource sharing and distributed computing …

Resource location or discovery is a key issue for Grid systems in which applications are
composed of hardware and software resources that need to be located. Classical …

As deployed Grids increase from tens to thousands of nodes, peer-to-peer (P2P) techniques
and protocols can be used to implement scalable services and applications. The super-peer …

Just as the Internet is shifting its focus from information and communication to a knowledge
delivery infrastructure, we see the Grid moving from computation and data management to a …

Content dissemination over mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) is usually performed using
peer-to-peer (P2P) networks due to its increased resiliency and efficiency when compared to …

The outrageous demand for file sharing among peers has become a significant
development of the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) communication system during the past few years …

This paper provides an extensive survey of the different methods of addressing security
issues in the grid computing environment, and specifically contributes to the research …

Recent developments in the pervasiveness and mobility of computer systems in open
computer networks have invalidated traditional assumptions about trust in computer …