P2P Networking and Applications (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking)

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks enable users to directly share digital content (such as audio, video, and text files) as well as real-time data (such as telephony traffic) with other users without depending on a central server. Although originally popularized by unlicensed online music services such as Napster, P2P networking has recently emerged as a viable multimillion dollar business model for the distribution of academic and clinical information, telecommunications, and social networking. Written at an accessible level for any reader familiar with fundamental Internet protocols, Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications explains the conceptual operations and architecture underlying basic P2P systems using well-known commercial systems as models. The book also delineates the latest research directions, thereby providing not only a sophisticated understanding of current systems, but also the means to improve upon these systems with innovations that will better performance, security, and flexibility. Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications is thus both a valuable starting point and an important reference to those practioners employed by any of the 200 companies with approximately $400 million invested in this new and lucrative technology.


Uses well-known commercial P2P systems as models, thus demonstrating real-world applicability.
Discusses how current research trends in wireless networking, high-def content, DRM, etc. will intersect with P2P, allowing readers to account for future developments in their designs.
Provides online access to the Overlay Weaver P2P emulator, an open-source tool that supports a number of peer-to-peer applications with which readers can practice.

User review
vast expansion of p2p networks
In 2001, the first authoritative book on peer to peer networks came out, Peer to Peer. It described the various types of p2p networks that then existed. The discussion included Napster and Chord. Now the current book shows the vast expansion of the p2p field. It gives deep technical analysis of the workings of numerous p2p efforts. The level of discussion involves mathematical ideas more intricate than those of the earlier book.

The early successes have inspired many researchers to devise more optimal networks or overlays. All the examples here sit atop the Internet. Maybe the most commercially successful p2p network in the book is Skype. Alas, its precise workings are held proprietary. But the authors make what are apparently accurate educated guesses about these.

The hardest p2p networks seem to be for mobile computers where the data feed is meant to be streaming. For this, the book's discussions show that current efforts are fairly rudimentary. The severe constraints posed by mobility and real time streaming need to be better overcome. No small task for the future.

User review
Which Platform ???
The authors of this book did not tell which platform the open source of the practice application is. Hopefully, will not just be download link of sopcast ppstream ppmate and so on.