Starting with Napster and Gnutella, peer-to-peer systems became
an integrated part of the Internet fabric attracting millions of
users. According to recent evaluations, peer-to-peer traffic now
exceeds Web traffic, once the dominant traffic on the Internet.
While the most popular peer-to-peer applications remain file
sharing and content distribution, new applications such as Internet
telephony are emerging.
Within just a few years, the huge popularity of peer-to-peer
systems and the explosion of peer-to-peer research have created a
large body of knowledge, but this book is the first textbook-like
survey to provide an up-to-date and in-depth introduction to the
field.
This state-of-the-art survey systematically draws together
prerequisites from various fields, presents techniques and
methodologies in a principled and coherent way, and gives a
comprehensive overview on the manifold applications of the
peer-to-peer paradigm. Leading researchers contributed their expert
knowledge to this book, each in his/her own specific area.
Lecturers can choose from the wide range of 32 tightly
integrated chapters on all current aspects of P2P systems and
applications, and thus individually tailor their class syllabi.
R&D professionals active in P2P will appreciate this book as a
valuable source of reference and inspiration.
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