Legitimate Applications of Peer-to-Peer Networks

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John Wiley & Sons, Apr 23, 2004 - Technology & Engineering - 164 pages
  • The book examines the different legitimate applications used over a peer-to-peer network (p2p)
  • The material examines the design and development of novel applications designed to leverage the distributed nature of peer-to-peer environments
  • Goes beyond the most popular application of file-sharing (including sharing of video and audio files) and discusses the many different applications
  • Compares traditional and peer-to-peer infrastructure and discusses merits and demerits of each approach from a business perspective
 

Contents

1 The PeertoPeer Architecture
1
2 Peer Discovery and Overlay Formation
19
3 ApplicationLayer Multicast
37
4 FileSharing Applications
55
5 File Storage Service
77
6 Data Backup Service
95
7 PeertoPeer Directory System
109
8 PublishSubscribe Middleware
123
9 Collaborative Applications
135
10 Related Topics
151
References
157
Index
161
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DINESH C. VERMA, PhD, is Manager of the Policy and Networking Group at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, New York. He received his doctorate from University of California, Berkeley, and holds more than fourteen patents in the area of computer networking. Dr. Verma is the author of Content Distribution Networks: An Engineering Approach (published by Wiley).

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