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RSS peerPeer-Assisted VoD: Making Internet Video Distribution Cheap
White Paper This paper considers the design and potential benefits of peer-assisted video-on-demand, in which participating peers assist the server in delivering VoD content. The paper focuses on the single-video approach, whereby a... [09 Jun 2007]
Performance review template: Peer feedback
White Paper This template includes a cover letter explaining the process and a survey designed to elicit useful, targeted peer comments. When it's time to conduct an employee's annual performance review, his or her peers can be an... [19 May 2006]
Peer-Assisted On-Demand Streaming of Stored Media Using BitTorrent-Like Protocols
White Paper This paper considers an approach to peer-assisted on-demand delivery of stored media that is based on the relatively simple and flexible BitTorrent-like approach, but which is able to achieve a form of "Streaming"... [22 Oct 2008]
'Cyberterrorists poised to attack', warns Labour peer
News New legislation is needed to protect the UK's essential systems from attack by cybercriminals and terrorists, a Labour peer claimed on Tuesday. Speaking at the Infosecurity Europe conference in London, Lord Harris of... [28 Apr 2005]
CPM: Adaptive Video-on-Demand With Cooperative Peer Assists and Multicast
White Paper This paper presents CPM, a unified approach that exploits server multicast, assisted by peer downloads, to provide efficient Video-on-Demand (VoD) in a service provider environment. They describe their architecture and... [29 May 2009]
Should Internet Service Providers Fear Peer-Assisted Content Distribution?
White Paper Recently, Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks have emerged as an attractive solution to enable large-scale content distribution without requiring major infrastructure investments. Using a diverse set of... [03 Dec 2008]
PuppetCast: A Secure Peer Sampling Protocol
White Paper PuppetCast is a protocol for secure peer sampling in large-scale distributed systems. A peer sampling protocol continuously provides each node in the system with a uniform random sample of the node... [02 Oct 2009]
PAT: Peer-Assisted Transcoding for Overlay Streaming to Heterogeneous Devices
White Paper To address this problem, this paper proposes PAT (Peer-Assisted Transcoding) to enable effective online trans-coding in P2P/overlay streaming. With the increasing deployment of Internet P2P/overlay streaming systems,... [22 Oct 2008]
Self-Organizing Schema Mappings in the GridVine Peer Data Management System
White Paper GridVine is a Peer Data Management System based on a decentralized access structure. Built following the principle of data independence, it separates a logical layer - where data, schemas and mappings are managed - from... [02 Nov 2008]
Diverse Peer Selection in Collaborative Web Search
White Paper Effective peer selection for intelligent query routing is a challenge in collaborative peer-based Web search systems, especially unstructured networks that do not have any centralized control of... [24 Dec 2008]
CMA amendment "pure idiocy", says peer
News A proposed UK law has been heavily criticised by a Tory peer and a senior security expert, who say it could criminalise both the police and innocent IT professionals who build or make available programs which are then... [26 May 2006]
'Snooping Bill' will be law by October says Peer
News Tory peer, Lord John Cope, said he was confident the government now recognised the flaws in the original Bill and that they would support all the recent amendments. The Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Bill could... [13 Jul 2000]
Peer-to-Peer Overlay Broker Networks in an Event-Based Middleware
White Paper This paper investigates the requirements of overlay broker networks and argues that using peer-to-peer techniques for their creation and the content-based routing of events has many advantages. They... [03 Jan 2009]
Peer-to-Peer Network Protocols Position Paper
White Paper This paper provides technical information on computer network Peer-to-Peer (P2P) protocols. It highlights issues relating to legal, security and infrastructure risks posed by P2P, reviews possible... [11 Apr 2008]
Peer-to-Peer Streaming Media Delivery
White Paper Whatever definitions have been put upon it, peer-to-peer is an effective rallying cry for a new way of doing things. Streaming media delivery is particularly susceptible to a... [21 Oct 2008]
