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Communications of the ACM
Chord: A scalable peer-to-peer lookup service for internet applications
Proceedings of the 2001 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Pastry: Scalable, Decentralized Object Location, and Routing for Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Systems
Middleware '01 Proceedings of the IFIP/ACM International Conference on Distributed Systems Platforms Heidelberg
Secure and Resilient Peer-to-Peer E-Mail: Design and Implementation
P2P '03 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing
Collision Module Integration in a Specific Graphic Engine for Terrain Visualization
IV '04 Proceedings of the Information Visualisation, Eighth International Conference
An empirical study of spam traffic and the use of DNS black lists
Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
A survey of peer-to-peer content distribution technologies
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
OpenDHT: a public DHT service and its uses
Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Experiences in building and operating ePOST, a reliable peer-to-peer application
Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGOPS/EuroSys European Conference on Computer Systems 2006
POST: a secure, resilient, cooperative messaging system
HOTOS'03 Proceedings of the 9th conference on Hot Topics in Operating Systems - Volume 9
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Conventional e-mail systems are prone to problems that impact their scalability and dependability. E-mail systems operate following a "push-based" approach: the sender side server pushes the e-mails it wants to send to the corresponding receivers' servers. This approach can impose processing and storage overhead on the receiver side. This paper presents an e-mail architecture in which messages are sent directly from senders to receivers using a "pull-based" approach. The sender stores locally all e-mails it intends to send, and notify their receivers using a global, distributed notification service. Receivers can then retrieve such notifications and decide if they want to receive the corresponding e-mails. If so, e-mails can be retrieved directly from their senders. This proposal is inspired from file sharing peer-to-peer systems, in which users locate and retrieve the contents they are looking for. A prototype was built to show the feasibility of the proposal.