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Fifth IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P'05)
pp. 11-20
The Essence of P2P: A Reference Architecture for Overlay Networks
Karl Aberer, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Luc Onana Alima, Université de Mons-Hainaut
Ali Ghodsi, Swedish Institute of Computer Science
Sarunas Girdzijauskas, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Seif Haridi, Swedish Institute of Computer Science
Manfred Hauswirth, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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The success of the P2P idea has created a huge diversity
of approaches, among which overlay networks, for example,
Gnutella, Kazaa, Chord, Pastry, Tapestry, P-Grid, or DKS,
have received specific attention from both developers and
researchers. A wide variety of algorithms, data structures,
and architectures have been proposed. The terminologies
and abstractions used, however, have become quite inconsistent
since the P2P paradigm has attracted people from
many different communities, e.g., networking, databases,
distributed systems, graph theory, complexity theory, biology,
etc. In this paper we propose a reference model for
overlay networks which is capable of modeling different approaches
in this domain in a generic manner. It is intended
to allow researchers and users to assess the properties of
concrete systems, to establish a common vocabulary for scientific
discussion, to facilitate the qualitative comparison of
the systems, and to serve as the basis for defining a standardized
API to make overlay networks interoperable.
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Citation:
Karl Aberer, Luc Onana Alima, Ali Ghodsi, Sarunas Girdzijauskas, Seif Haridi, Manfred Hauswirth,
"The Essence of P2P: A Reference Architecture for Overlay Networks,"
p2p,
pp. 11-20,
Fifth IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P'05),
2005
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