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P2P Networks for Content Sharing

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies have been widely used for content sharing, popularly called "file-swapping" networks. This chapter gives a broad overview of content sharing P2P technologies. It starts with the fundamental concept of P2P computing followed by the analysis of network topologies used in peer-to-peer systems. Next, three milestone peer-to-peer technologies: Napster, Gnutella, and Fasttrack are explored in details, and they are finally concluded with the comparison table in the last section.

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@article{arxiv.cs/0402018,
  title  = {P2P Networks for Content Sharing},
  author = {Choon Hoong Ding and Sarana Nutanong and Rajkumar Buyya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0402018},
  year   = {2007}
}

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35 pages, 26 figures