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The peer-to-peer communication paradigm, when used to disseminate bulk content or to stream real-time multimedia, has enjoyed the distinct advantage of scalability when compared to the client-server model, since it takes advantage of available upload bandwidth at participating peers to alleviate server load. As multiple concurrent peer-to-peer sessions co-exist in the Internet, it is natural to demand...