P2P Networking and Applications (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780123742148)

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 information, telecommunications, and social networking. Written at an accessible level for any reader familiar with fundamental Internet protocols, the book explains the conceptual operations and architecture underlying basic P2P systems using well-known commercial systems as models and also provides the means to improve upon these models 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 practitioners employed by any of the 200 companies with approximately $400 million invested in this new and lucrative technology.

Author: John Buford,Heather Yu,Eng Keong Lua
ISBN-10: 0123742145
ISBN-13: 9780123742148
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2008
Pages: 408
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.05lbs
Size: 9.30h x 7.50w x 1.10d