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A fundamental problem in a pure Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file sharing system is how to protect the anonymity of nodes when providing efficient data access services. By seamlessly combining the technologies of multi-proxy and IP multicast together, we propose a multicast-based protocol for efficient file sharing with mutual anonymity in this paper. Furthermore, the proposed protocol can adaptively adjust file distribution and reduce the multicast cost simultaneously. The simulations show that Mapper possesses the merits of scalability, reliability, and high adaptability with high performance.
This work is partially supported by the National 973 Program of China under Grant No. 2002CB312002 and the National High-Tech Research and Development 863 Program of China under Grant No. 2001AA113050.
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Ye, B., Zhou, J., Zhang, Y., Cao, J., Chen, D. (2004). An Efficient Protocol for Peer-to-Peer File Sharing with Mutual Anonymity. In: Jin, H., Pan, Y., Xiao, N., Sun, J. (eds) Grid and Cooperative Computing - GCC 2004. GCC 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3251. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30208-7_89
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