P2p Networking And Applications

PeertoPeer P2P networks enable users to directly share digital contentsuch as audio video and text files as well as realtime data such astelephony traffic with ... » 

PeertoPeer P2P networks enable users to directly share digital contentsuch as audio video and text files as well as realtime data such astelephony traffic with other users without depending on a central server.Although originally popularized by unlicensed online music services such asNapster P2P networking has recently emerged as a viable multimillion dollarbusiness model for the distribution of academic and clinical informationtelecommunications and social networking. Written at an accessible level forany reader familiar with fundamental Internet protocols PeertoPeerNetworking and Applications explains the conceptual operations and architectureunderlying basic P2P systems using wellknown commercial systems as models. Thebook also delineates the latest research directions thereby providing not onlya sophisticated understanding of current systems but also the means to improveupon these systems with innovations that will better performance and security. «