Understanding Peer-to-Peer Technology
Keywords:
Peer-to-Peer topology, Peer-to-Peer network, Peer-to-Peer computingAbstract
Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks such as Gnutella and Bittorrent have revolutionized Internet-based applications. A peer-to-peer network offers high-availability, high-reliability, and fault tolerance. The useof a peer-to-peer network can be applied to many kinds of applications. It is not only limited to filesharing applications. Many projects have adopted peer-to-peer networks for their applications, such as SETI@home, a CPU sharing application, Oceanstore, a storage sharing application, and OverCite, a distributed version of the Citeseer digital library. An understanding of peer-to-peer technology will allow us to adapt the existing client/server model applications into a peer-to-peer model which may give us an alternative solution that is better than the existing one.
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