@conference {12306,
	title = {Scalable peer finding on the Internet},
	booktitle = {Global Telecommunications Conference, 2002. GLOBECOM {\textquoteright}02. IEEE},
	volume = {3},
	year = {2002},
	month = {2002/11//},
	pages = {2205 - 2209 vol.3 - 2205 - 2209 vol.3},
	abstract = {We consider the problem of finding nearby application peers over the Internet. We define a new peer-finding scheme (called Tiers) that scales to large application peer groups. Tiers creates a hierarchy of the peers, which allows an efficient and scalable solution to this problem. The scheme can be implemented entirely in the application-layer and does not require the deployment of either any additional measurement services, or well-known reference landmarks in the network. We present detailed evaluation of Tiers and compare it to one previously proposed scheme called Beaconing. Through analysis and detailed simulations on 10,000 node Internet-like topologies we show that Tiers achieves comparable or better performance with a significant reduction in control overheads for groups of size 32 or more.},
	keywords = {application, application-layer;, Beaconing;, CONTROL, finding;, Internet-like, Internet;, measurement, network, overhead, peer, peer-finding, peers;, protocol;, protocols;, reduction;, scalable, scheme;, services;, simulations;, solution;, Tiers;, topologies;, topology;},
	doi = {10.1109/GLOCOM.2002.1189023},
	author = {Banerjee,S. and Kommareddy,C. and Bhattacharjee, Bobby}
}
@article {12307,
	title = {Scalable secure group communication over IP multicast},
	journal = {Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Journal on},
	volume = {20},
	year = {2002},
	month = {2002/10//},
	pages = {1511 - 1527},
	abstract = {We introduce and analyze a scalable rekeying scheme for implementing secure group communications Internet protocol multicast. We show that our scheme incurs constant processing, message, and storage overhead for a rekey operation when a single member joins or leaves the group, and logarithmic overhead for bulk simultaneous changes to the group membership. These bounds hold even when group dynamics are not known a priori. Our rekeying algorithm requires a particular clustering of the members of the secure multicast group. We describe a protocol to achieve such clustering and show that it is feasible to efficiently cluster members over realistic Internet-like topologies. We evaluate the overhead of our own rekeying scheme and also of previously published schemes via simulation over an Internet topology map containing over 280 000 routers. Through analysis and detailed simulations, we show that this rekeying scheme performs better than previous schemes for a single change to group membership. Further, for bulk group changes, our algorithm outperforms all previously known schemes by several orders of magnitude in terms of actual bandwidth usage, processing costs, and storage requirements.},
	keywords = {access, algorithm;, authentication;, Bandwidth, communication;, CONTROL, costs;, cryptography;, dynamics;, group, group;, Internet, Internet-like, Internet;, IP, logarithmic, map;, membership;, message, Multicast, multicast;, network, overhead;, PROCESSING, protocol, protocols;, rekeying, requirements;, routers;, routing;, scalable, secure, security;, server;, simulation;, storage, Telecommunication, topologies;, Topology, topology;, transport, usage;},
	isbn = {0733-8716},
	doi = {10.1109/JSAC.2002.803986},
	author = {Banerjee,S. and Bhattacharjee, Bobby}
}
@conference {12315,
	title = {Finding close friends on the Internet},
	booktitle = {Network Protocols, 2001. Ninth International Conference on},
	year = {2001},
	month = {2001/11//},
	pages = {301 - 309},
	abstract = {We consider the problem of finding nearby application-peers (close friends) over the Internet. We focus on unicast-only solutions and introduce a new scheme -Beaconing-for finding peers that are near. Our scheme uses distance measurement points (called beacons) and can be implemented entirely in the application-layer without investing in large infrastructure changes. We present an extensive evaluation of Beaconing and compare it to existing schemes including Expanding Ring searches and Triangulation. Our experiments show that 3-8 beacons are sufficient to provide efficient peer-location service on 10 000 node Internet-like topologies. Further, our results are 2-5 times more accurate than existing techniques. We also present results from an implementation of Beaconing over a non-trivial wide-area testbed. In our experiments, Beaconing is able to efficiently (< 3 K Bytes and < 50 packets on average), quickly (< 1 second on average), and accurately (< 20 ms error on average) find nearby peers on the Internet.},
	keywords = {application-layer;, application-peers;, Beaconing;, beacons;, close, distance, Expanding, friends;, Internet-like, Internet;, IP;, measurement, nearby, network, peer-location, points;, protocols;, Ring, searches;, service;, solutions;, testbed;, topologies;, topology;, transport, Triangulation;, unicast-only, wide-area},
	doi = {10.1109/ICNP.2001.992910},
	author = {Kommareddy,C. and Shankar,N. and Bhattacharjee, Bobby}
}
