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- Peer
- On the same level or providing the same function. In networking, a peer is a node that provides the same functionality as another. For example, two desktop PCs...
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- IT Manager Webcast: IT Manager Community Talk With Kevin - Service Oriented Architecture and Business Process Management (Level 100)
- Looking for ways to connect with the peers in communities, share ideas and get guidance around the challenges face in the organizations today? The presenters of this webcast discuss the challenges/approaches with the peers, find out how Microsoft products and technologies address the issues, and engage with the peers to...
- Webcasts 2009-05-04
- IT Manager Webcast: IT Manager Community Talk With Kevin - Business Intelligence (Level 100)
- Looking for ways to connect with the peers in communities, share ideas and get guidance around the challenges faced in the organizations today? The presenters of this webcast show how Microsoft products and technologies address the issues, and engage with the peers to share best practices.
- Webcasts 2009-04-20
- iPhone OS 3.0: Leaf Trombone
- Ge Wang of Smule and friend show off their amazing musical skills using their new iPhone app, Leaf Trombone World Stage.
- Videos 2009-03-17
- iPhone OS 3.0: Peer-to-peer networking
- Play multiplayer games and share data with the iPhone user next to you. Apple iPhone software guru Scott Forstall demonstrates.
- Videos 2009-03-17
- BigSpeed Video Chat SDK 3.0 (Windows)
- BigSpeed Video Chat SDK is a set of two ActiveX controls Client and Server that lets you set up a private video chat network for secure messaging. The transfered data are scrambled using on-the-fly 128-bit AES encryption. The security is provided in two different modes: symmetric encryption with shared secret...
- Software downloads 2008-10-30
- Free-Riding, Fairness, and Firewalls in P2P File-Sharing
- Peer-to-peer file-sharing networks depend on peers uploading data to each other. Some peers, called free-riders, will not upload data unless there is an incentive to do so. Algorithms designed to prevent free-riding typically assume that connectivity is not a problem. However, on the Internet, a large fraction of the peers...
- White papers 2008-08-04
- BigSpeed Voice Chat SDK 3.0 (Windows)
- BigSpeed Voice Chat SDK is a set of two ActiveX controls Client and Server that lets you set up a private voice chat network for secure messaging. The transfered data are scrambled using on-the-fly 128-bit AES encryption. The security is provided in two different modes: symmetric encryption with shared secret...
- Software downloads 2008-06-16
- BigSpeed Peer-to-Peer SDK 3.0 (Windows)
- BigSpeed Peer-to-Peer SDK is a set of two COM components Agent and Hub that lets you set up a virtual private peer-to-peer (P2P) network for secure file sharing and messaging. The transfered data are scrambled using on-the-fly 128-bit AES encryption, without need of SSL certificates. NAT traversal is implemented by...
- Software downloads 2008-05-09
- A CDN-P2P Hybrid Architecture for Cost-Effective Streaming Media Distribution
- To distribute video and audio data in real-time streaming mode, two different technologies - Content Distribution Network CDN and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) - have been proposed. However, both technologies have their own limitations: CDN servers are expensive to deploy and maintain, and consequently incur a cost for media providers and/or clients...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Analysis of a CDN-P2P Hybrid Architecture for Cost-Effective Streaming Media Distribution
- To distribute video and audio data in real-time streaming mode, two different technologies - Content Distribution Network CDN and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) - have been proposed. However, both technologies have their own limitations: CDN servers are expensive to deploy and maintain, and consequently incur a cost for media providers and/or clients...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- On Peer-to-Peer Media Streaming
- This paper studies a peer-to-peer media streaming system with the following characteristics: its streaming capacity grows dynamically; peers do not exhibit server-like behavior; peers are heterogeneous in their bandwidth contribution; and each streaming session may involve multiple supplying peers. Based on these characteristics, the paper investigates two problems: how to...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- The Pollution Attack in P2P Live Video Streaming: Measurement Results and Defenses
- P2P mesh-pull live video streaming applications - such as Cool-Streaming, PPLive, and PPStream - have become popular in the recent years. This paper examines the stream pollution attack, for which the attacker mixes polluted chunks into the P2P distribution, degrading the quality of the rendered media at the receivers. Polluted...
- White papers 2007-08-31
- P2P Video Live Streaming With MDC: Providing Incentives for Redistribution
- This paper considers applying multiple description coding in data-driven P2P live streaming networks to provide incentives for redistribution. In the system, a video is encoded into multiple descriptions with each description having equal importance. They consider a heterogeneous system with peers having different uplink bandwidths. They design a distributed protocol...
- White papers 2007-03-07
- An Amortized Tit-for-Tat Protocol for Exchanging Bandwidth Instead of Content in P2P Networks
- Incentives for resource sharing are crucial for the proper operation of P2P networks. The principle of the incentive mechanisms in current content sharing P2P networks such as BitTorrent is to have peers exchange content of mutual interest. As a consequence, a peer can actively participate in the system only if...
- White papers 2007-02-11
- Actively Monitoring Peers in KAD
- In recent years, a large number of DHTs have been proposed. However, very few of them have been deployed in real-life large scale systems. An exception is KAD, a DHT based on Kademlia that is part of the widely used eMule peer-to-peer system, which has more than 1.5 million simultaneous...
- White papers 2007-01-17
- Does Yellowstone need better cell coverage?
- Federal officials are secretly planning to turn Yellowstone National Park into a "giant cybercafe," the group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility PEER charged today. According to a media alert from PEER, National Park Service representatives met with cellphone company representatives to develop a "Wireless Telecommunications Plan. The companies urged...
- Blog posts 2006-05-03
Additional Resources
- Tixati 1.21 (Windows)
- Tixati is a free and easy to use BitTorrent client featuring detailed views of all seed, peer, and file transfer properties. Also included are powerful bandwidth charting and throttling capabilities, and a full DHT implementation.
- Software downloads 2009-11-20
- Easy MP3 Downloader 3.3.4.6 (Windows)
- Easy MP3 Downloader, a revolutionary new program, provides you an easy, efficient and legitimate method to search and download music. Over 100 million songs are available. It is not a Peer-to-Peer program and it is 100% clean, safe and legal. You're not sharing music with others and what you download...
- Software downloads 2009-11-19
- Music MP3 Downloader 2.6.5.6 (Windows)
- Music MP3 Downloader is easy-to-use software which enables you to search and download over 100 million MP3 from the largest music network. It is not a Peer-to-Peer program and it is 100% clean of any form of badware (viruses, spyware, adware). Music MP3 Downloader always brings you the hottest songs...
- Software downloads 2009-11-18
- UCee 1.0.0003 (Windows)
- Stream from PC to computers/smartphone safely and securely. Video, Audio, Surveillance. Stream contents to your customers. Set up program broadcast schedules. Users can also find your programs by searchable key. Retrieve documents or stream media contents from your PC to a smartphone or remote PC. Watch surveillance video from remote...
- Software downloads 2009-11-17
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