Peer-to-Peer Systems and Applications
LNCS 3485, 658 pages, ISBN 3-540-29192-X, Springer, Sept. 2005
“Currently, a new and highly interesting paradigm for communication on the
Internet, known as Peer-to-Peer, is emerging. Although originally designed
exclusively for pragmatic (and legally controversial) file sharing applications, P2P
mechanisms can be used to access any kind of distributed resources and may
offer new possibilities for internet-based applications.”
“According to several internet service providers, more than 50% of Internet
traffic is due to P2P applications, sometimes even as much as 75%.
The continuous growth of the internet in terms of users and bandwidth
is accompanied by increasing requirements of a diversified wealth of applications.
Today, the traditional client-server approaches require a tremendous amount
of effort and resources to meet these challenges. Thus, three main
requirements of future internet-based applications can be identified:
Scalability (…), Security and Reliability (…), Flexibility and Quality of Service.”
“It is becoming increasingly obvious that client-server-based applications,
which have become popular since the early 1980s, can no longer fully
meet the evolving requirements of the internet. In particular, their centralized
nature is prone to resource bottlenecks. Consequently, they can be easily
attacked and are difficult and expensive to modify due to their strategic
placement within the network infrastructure. The concepts of P2P networking and P2P
computing promise to provide simpler solutions to the problems mentioned above
through a fundamental shift of paradigms.”
“The P2P approach is by no means just a technology for file sharing. Rather, it
forms a fundamental design principle for distributed systems. It clearly reflects
the paradigm shift from coordination to cooperation,
from centralization to decentralization, and from control to incentives.”
“With this book, we want to give a broad overview on the manifold range of application
of the Peer-to-Peer paradigm.” (…) “Many experts assembled their knowledge for this
book, each of them in his own specific research area. Teachers can choose out of a
wide range of thirty-two chapters on all aspects of P2P systems and applications, and
therefore, can design the syllabus for their classes with individual accentuation.”
Further information on the text book and teaching material will soon be available on:
http://www.peer-to-peer.info/
Editors:
Prof. Dr. Ralf Steinmetz, Multimedia Communications Lab KOM,
Technical University of Darmstadt, http://www.kom.tu-darmstadt.de/
Dr. Klaus Wehrle, Protocol-Engineering & Distributed Systems
University of Tübingen, http://ps.ri.uni-tuebingen.de/
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