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 of new applications are under development or being proposed. The underlying architectures share features including decentralization, end system resources, autonomy, virtualization, and self-organization. These features constitute the P2P paradigm. Trends in information and network technology such as increased performance and deployment of broadband networking, wireless networking, and mobile devices are synergistic with and reinforce the capabilities of this P2P paradigm.

The Handbook of Peer-to-Peer Networking is dedicated to discussions on P2P networks and their applications, thus providing an exhaustive view of the state-of-the-art of the P2P networking field. Written by leading international experts, the volume contains fifty chapters dedicated to the following topics:

. Introduction to Peer-to-Peer Networking

. Unstructured P2P Overlay Architectures

. Structured P2P Overlay Architectures

. Search and Query Processing

. Incentive Mechanisms

. Trust, Anonymity, and Privacy

. Broadcast and Multicast Services

. Multimedia Content Delivery

. Mobile P2P

. Fault Tolerance in P2P Networks

. Measurement and P2P Traffic Characteristics

. Advanced P2P Computing and Networking

This comprehensive volume serves as an essential reference for researchers and professionals, The book is also suitable for computer science and engineering students at the advanced undergraduate level or higher who are familiar with networking, network protocol concepts, and basic ideas about algorithms.

Résumé
Peer-to-peer networking is a disruptive technology for large scale distributed app- cations 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 - derlying 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 c- rent research and state-of-the-art reports on the nature of this paradigm from a large number of experts in the ?eld. Several trends in information and network technology such as increased perf- mance 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 evo- tion 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 discussions on P2P networks and their applications. This is a comprehensive book on P2P computing.

Contenu
to Peer-to-Peer Networking.- Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications: Synopsis and Research Directions.- The Social Impact of P2P Systems.- From Client-Server to P2P Networking.- Examining the Use of Peer-to-Peer Networks from an Activity Perspective.- Unstructured P2P Overlay Architectures.- Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Network Architectures.- Exchanging Peers to Establish P2P Networks.- Peer-to-Peer Topology Formation Using Random Walk.- Semantic Social Overlay Networks.- Structured P2P Overlay Architectures.- Overview of Structured Peer-to-Peer Overlay Algorithms.- Distributed Hash Tables: Design and Applications.- The Gamut of Bootstrapping Mechanisms for Structured Overlay Networks.- Network-Aware DHT-Based P2P Systems.- On Adding Structure to Unstructured Overlay Networks.- Mathematical Modeling of Routing in DHTs.- Search and Query Processing.- Keyword Search in Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Networks.- Distributed Search and Pattern Matching.- Distributed Semantic Overlay Networks.- Self-adaptation and Self-organization for Search in Social-Like Peer-to-Peer Networks.- Data Sharing in P2P Systems.- Managing Linguistic Data Summaries in Advanced P2P Applications.- Case Study: Scoop for Partial Read from P2P Database.- Incentive Mechanisms.- Incentive Mechanisms for Cooperation in Peer-to-Peer Networks.- Bandwidth Trading as Incentive.- Trust, Anonymity, and Privacy.- Reputation-Based Trust Management in Peer-to-Peer Systems: Taxonomy and Anatomy.- P2P Reputation Management Through Social Networking.- State of the Art in Trust and Reputation Models in P2P networks.- Anonymity in P2P Systems.- Private Peer-to-Peer Networks.- Broadcast and Multicast Services.- Gossip-Based Broadcast.- Employing Multicast in P2P Overlay Networks.- Multicast Services over Structured P2P Networks.- Multicast Routing in Structured Overlays and Hybrid Networks.- Multicast and Bulk Lookup in Structured Overlay Networks.- Multimedia Content Delivery.- Peer-to-Peer Content Distribution and Over-The-Top TV: An Analysis of Value Networks.- Live Video and IP-TV.- Providing VoD Streaming Using P2P Networks.- Mobile P2P.- Peer-to-Peer Overlay in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks.- Opportunistic Information Retrieval in Sparsely Connected Ad Hoc Networks.- The MOBI-DIK Approach to Searching in Mobile Ad Hoc Network Databases.- Fault Tolerance in P2P Networks.- Managing Network Partitions in Structured P2P Networks.- Load Balancing in Structured P2P Networks.- Acyclic preference-based systems.- Measurement and P2P Traffic Characteristics.- The Behavior of Free Riders in Bit Torrent Networks.- The Nature of Peer-to-Peer Traffic.- Characterization of P2P Systems.- Improving Peer-to-Peer Transport Paths for Content Distribution.- Advanced P2P Computing and Networking.- A Formal Architectural Model for Peer-to-Peer Systems.- P2P Approach for Web Services Publishing and Discovery.- Content-Based Publish/Subscribe Systems.- Supporting Collaboration and Creativity Through Mobile P2P Computing.