My Publications and Theses

Current project: P2P-Next (EU 7th Framework)

Publications

• N. Zeilemaker, M. Capotă, A. Bakker and J. Pouwelse. "Tribler: P2P Media Search and Sharing". ACM Multimedia Conference 2011, Open Source Software Program track, Nov 28-Dec 1, Scottsdale, AZ, USA.
• A. Bakker, V. Grishchenko, R. Petrocco, J. Pouwelse. "The Swift Multiparty Transport Protocol as PPSP", IETF 82 Peer-to-Peer Streaming Protocol (PPSP) Work Group Meeting, Taipei, Taiwan, Nov 13-18, 2011 (talk).
• N. Zeilemaker, M. Capotă, A. Bakker and J. Pouwelse. "Tribler: Search and Stream". IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing 2011 (P2P'11), Demo track, Aug 31-Sep 2, Kyoto, Japan.
• A. Bakker, V. Grishchenko, J. Pouwelse. "The Swift Multiparty Transport Protocol as PPSP", IETF 81 Peer-to-Peer Streaming Protocol (PPSP) Work Group Meeting, Quebec City, Canada, Jul 24-29, 2011 (talk).
• A. Bakker, R. Petrocco, V. Grishchenko, D. Rabaioli, J. Pouwelse. "Swift Delivery of HTML5 Video Using P2P", Open Video Conference, New York, NY, Oct 1-2, 2010 (talk).
• A. Bakker, R. Petrocco, M. Dale, J. Gerber, V. Grishchenko, D. Rabaioli, J. Pouwelse. "Online video using BitTorrent and HTML5 applied to Wikipedia", IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing 2010 (P2P'10), Demo track, Aug 25-27, Delft, The Netherlands.
• A. Bakker, J. Gerber, R. Petrocco, M. Dale, D. Rabaioli, J. Pouwelse. "P2P Video for Wikipedia", Wikimania 2010, Gdansk, Poland, Jul 9-22, 2010 (talk).
• J. Mol, A. Bakker, J. Pouwelse, D. Epema, H. Sips. "The Design and Deployment of a BitTorrent Live Video Streaming Solution". Proceedings International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM 2009), San Diego, CA, USA, Dec 14-16, 2009.
• A. Bakker, E. Ogston and M. van Steen. "Collaborative Filtering Using Random Neighbours in Peer-to-Peer Networks". Proceedings Workshop on Complex Networks in Information & Knowledge Management (CNIKM'09), Hong Kong, Nov 6, 2009.
• A. Bakker and M. van Steen. "PuppetCast: A Secure Peer Sampling Protocol". Proceedings 4th Annual European Conference on Computer Network Defense (EC2ND'08), pp. 3-10, Dublin, Ireland, 11-12 December 2008.
• A. Bakker, E. Ogston and M. van Steen. "Random Opinions in Decentralized Recommendation". Technical Report IR-CS-026, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands. September 2008 (updated).
• J.A. Pouwelse, P. Garbacki, J. Wang, A. Bakker, J. Yang, A. Iosup, D.H.J. Epema, M. Reinders, M. van Steen and H.J. Sips. "Tribler: A social-based peer-to-peer system". Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience" 20(2), pp. 127-138, Feb 2008 (updated version of IPTPS'06).
• B. Popescu, B. Crispo, A.S. Tanenbaum, A. Bakker. "Design and Implementation of a Secure Wide-Area Object Middleware". The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking, Computer Networks and ISDN Systems 51(10). pp. 2484-2513, Jul 2007, Elsevier B.V.
• E. Ogston, A. Bakker, M. van Steen. "On the Value of Random Opinions in Decentralized Recommendation". Proceedings 6th IFIP WG 6.1nternational Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS'06). Bologna, Italy, 14--16 June 2006. Proceedings published in LNCS 4025.
• J. Pouwelse, P. Garbacki, J. Wang, A. Bakker, J. Yang, A. Iosup, D. Epema, M. Reinders, M. van Steen, H. Sips. "Tribler: A Social-Based Peer-to-Peer System". 5th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS'06), Santa Barbara, CA, USA, Feb. 2006.
• A. Bakker, M. van Steen, A.S. Tanenbaum. "A Wide-Area Distribution Network for Free Software". ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 6(3). August 2006.
• M. van Steen, A. Bakker. "Webhosting-revolutie dankzij distributed webservers". c't magazine voor computer techniek. December 2004.
• A. Bakker. "Globule: Bloedsnelle Websites". Linux Magazine, The Netherlands. December 2004.
• A. Bakker, I. Kuz, M. van Steen, A.S. Tanenbaum, P. Verkaik. "Design and Implementation of the Globe Middleware.". Technical Report IR-CS-003, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, June 2003.
• A. Bakker, M. van Steen, A.S. Tanenbaum. "A Wide-Area Distribution Network for Free Software.". Technical Report IR-CS-002, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, January 2003.
• A. Bakker, I. Kuz, M. van Steen, A.S. Tanenbaum, P.Verkaik. "Global Distribution of Free Software (and other things).". Proceedings System Administration and Network Engineering Conference (SANE 2002), Maastricht, The Netherlands, May 2002.
• A. Bakker, M. van Steen, A.S. Tanenbaum. "A Law-Abiding Peer-to-Peer Network for Free-Software Distribution". In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA'01), Cambridge, MA, October 2001.
• A. Bakker, M. van Steen, A.S. Tanenbaum. "A Distribution Network for Free Software". Technical Report IR-485, Division of Mathematics and Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, February 2001.
• A. Bakker, E. Amade, G. Ballintijn, I. Kuz, P. Verkaik, I. van der Wijk, M. van Steen and A.S. Tanenbaum. "The Globe Distribution Network" In Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (FREENIX track), San Diego, CA, June 2000, pages 141-152.
• A. Bakker, M. van Steen and A.S. Tanenbaum "From Remote Objects To Physically Distributed Objects" In Proceedings of 7th IEEE Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems (FTDCS), Cape Town, South Africa, December 1999, pages 47-52.
• A. Bakker, M. van Steen and A.S. Tanenbaum "Replicated Invocations in Wide-Area Systems" In Proceedings of the Eighth ACM SIGOPS European Workshop, Sintra, Portugal, September 1998, pages 130-137.
  (Extended abstract)
• A. Bakker and M. van Steen. "Replicated Invocations in Wide-Area Systems: A Possible Solution" In Proceedings of the Fourth Annual ASCI Conference, Lommel, Belgium, June 1998.
• A. Bakker, I. Kuz and M. van Steen. "Towards a Taxonomy of Distributed-Object Models" In Proceedings of the Third Annual ASCI Conference, Heijen, The Netherlands, June 1997.

Please see the P2P-Next and I-Share publication sites for project deliverables I wrote.

PhD Dissertation

• "An Object-Based Software Distribution Network" (PDF)
• "An Object-Based Software Distribution Network" (PDF with hyperlinks)

The public defense of my dissertation was on December 4th, 2002 at 13:45 in the auditorium of the Vrije Universiteit.

Master's Thesis

• CORBA and the Component Based Development of Distributed Applications, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1996 (not publicly available).