Structured Peer-to-Peer Systems
Fundamentals of Hierarchical Organization, Routing, Scaling, and Security
Authors: Korzun, Dmitry, Gurtov, Andrei
Free Preview- Covers fundamental issues in organization, optimization, and tradeoffs of present large-scale structured P2P systems
- Highlights P2P applications in the modern Internet
- Presents ranking and fairness mechanisms, look-ahead routing, analytical modeling and simulation methods, and security aspects in P2P systems
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The field of structured P2P systems has seen fast growth upon the introduction of Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) in the early 2000s. The first proposals, including Chord, Pastry, Tapestry, were gradually improved to cope with scalability, locality and security issues. By utilizing the processing and bandwidth resources of end users, the P2P approach enables high performance of data distribution which is hard to achieve with traditional client-server architectures. The P2P computing community is also being actively utilized for software updates to the Internet, P2PSIP VoIP, video-on-demand, and distributed backups. The recent introduction of the identifier-locator split proposal for future Internet architectures poses another important application for DHTs, namely mapping between host permanent identity and changing IP address. The growing complexity and scale of modern P2P systems requires the introduction of hierarchy and intelligence in routing of requests.
Structured Peer-to-Peer Systems covers fundamental issues in organization, optimization, and tradeoffs of present large-scale structured P2P systems, as well as, provides principles, analytical models, and simulation methods applicable in designing future systems. Part I presents the state-of-the-art of structured P2P systems, popular DHT topologies and protocols, and the design challenges for efficient P2P network topology organization, routing, scalability, and security. Part II shows that local strategies with limited knowledge per peer provide the highest scalability level subject to reasonable performance and security constraints. Although the strategies are local, their efficiency is due to elements of hierarchical organization, which appear in many DHT designs that traditionally are considered as flat ones. Part III describes methods to gradually enhance the local view limit when a peer is capable to operate with larger knowledge, still partial, about the entire system. These methods were formed in the evolution of hierarchical organization from flat DHT networks to hierarchical DHT architectures, look-ahead routing, and topology-aware ranking. Part IV highlights some known P2P-based experimental systems and commercial applications in the modern Internet. The discussion clarifies the importance of P2P technology for building present and future Internet systems.
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From the reviews:
“The book offers an interesting overview of problems concerning peer-to-peer technology, with their relation to the fields of networking and distributed systems. … The book is suitable for advanced students and researchers interested in P2P systems development, as it consists of theorems relevant to P2P solutions and many case studies.” (Jozef Woźniak, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1263, 2013)
- Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Terminology, Problems, and Design Issues
Pages 5-23
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Flat DHT Routing Topologies
Pages 25-42
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Hierarchical Neighbor Maintenance
Pages 47-86
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Adaptable Overlay Network Topology
Pages 87-109
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Clustering
Pages 111-131
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Structured Peer-to-Peer Systems
- Book Subtitle
- Fundamentals of Hierarchical Organization, Routing, Scaling, and Security
- Authors
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- Dmitry Korzun
- Andrei Gurtov
- Copyright
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media New York
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4614-5483-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4614-5483-0
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-4614-5482-3
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4899-8694-8
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXII, 366
- Topics