Handbook of Peer-to-Peer Networking
Peer-to-peer networking, a disruptive technology for large scale distributed applications, has gained widespread attention due to the successes of peer-to-peer (P2P) content sharing, media streaming, and telephony applications. In addition, a large range
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Xuemin Shen · Heather Yu · John Buford · Mursalin Akon Editors
Handbook of Peer-to-Peer Networking
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Editors Xuemin Shen Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Waterloo 200 University Avenue W. Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1 Canada [email protected] Heather Yu Huawei Technologies USA 400 Someset Corp Blvd. Bridgewater, NJ 08807 USA [email protected]
John Buford Avaya Labs Research 233 Mount Airy Road Basking Ridge, NJ 07920 USA [email protected]
Mursalin Akon Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Waterloo 200 University Avenue W. Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1 Canada [email protected]
ISBN 978-0-387-09750-3 e-ISBN 978-0-387-09751-0 DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-09751-0 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2009937578 c Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
For our parents. -Xuemin Shen, Heather Yu, John F. Buford and Mursalin Akon
Preface
Peer-to-peer networking is a disruptive technology for large scale distributed applications that has recently gained wide interest due to the successes of peer-to-peer (P2P) content sharing, media streaming, and telephony applications. There are a large range of other applications under development or being proposed. The underlying architectures share features such as decentralizaton, sharing of end system resources, autonomy, virtualization, and self-organization. These features constitute the P2P paradigm. This handbook broadly addresses a large cross-section of current research and state-of-the-art reports on the nature of this paradigm from a large number of experts in the field. Several trends in information and network technology such as increased performance and deployment of broadband networking, wireless networking, and mobile devices are synergistic with and reinforcing the capabilities of the P2P paradigm. There is general expectation in the technical community that P2P networking will continue to be an important tool for networked applications and impact the evolution of the Internet. A large amount of research activity has resulted in a relatively short time, and a growing community of researchers has developed. The Handbook of Peer-to-Peer Networking is dedicated to di
