Peer-to-Peer Systems and Applications
Starting with Napster and Gnutella, peer-to-peer systems became an integrated part of the Internet fabric attracting millions of users. According to recent evaluations, peer-to-peer traffic now exceeds Web traffic, once the dominant traffic on the Interne
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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos New York University, NY, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University, Houston, TX, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany
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Ralf Steinmetz Klaus Wehrle (Eds.)
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Volume Editors Ralf Steinmetz TU Darmstadt KOM - Multimedia Communications Lab Merckstr. 25, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany E-mail: [email protected] Klaus Wehrle Universität Tübingen Protocol-Engineering and Distributed Systems Group Morgenstelle 10 c, 72076 Tübingen, Germany E-mail: [email protected]
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Foreword Ion Stoica (University of California at Berkeley)
Starting with Napster and Gnutella, Peer-to-Peer systems became an integrated part of the Internet fabric attracting millions of users. According to recent measurements of several large ISPs, Peer-to-Peer traffic exceeds Web traffic, once the dominant traffic on the Internet. While the most popular Peer-to-Peer applications continue to remain file sharing and content distribution, new applications such as Internet telephony are starting to emerge. Not surprisingly, the popularity of Peer-to-Peer systems has fueled academic research. In a very short time, Peer-to-Peer has evolv
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