P2P Networking and Applications (Hardcover)

John Buford, Heather Yu, Eng Keong Lua

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商品描述

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.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

點對點(P2P)網絡使用者能夠直接與其他使用者共享數字內容(如音頻、視頻和文本文件)以及即時數據(如電話流量),而無需依賴於中央服務器。儘管最初由未經許可的在線音樂服務(如Napster)普及,但P2P網絡最近已成為一種可行的、價值數百萬美元的業務模式,用於學術和臨床信息、電信和社交網絡的分發。《點對點網絡和應用》以易於理解的方式,針對熟悉基本互聯網協議的讀者,解釋了基本P2P系統的概念操作和架構,並以知名商業系統作為模型。該書還勾勒了最新的研究方向,因此不僅提供了對當前系統的深入理解,還提供了改進這些系統的創新方法,以提高性能、安全性和靈活性。《點對點網絡和應用》因此既是一個寶貴的起點,也是一個重要的參考,適用於任何投資約4億美元的200家公司的從業人員,這些公司投資於這項新興且有利可圖的技術。

- 使用知名商業P2P系統作為模型,從而展示了現實世界的應用性。
- 討論了當前無線網絡、高清內容、DRM等研究趨勢如何與P2P相交,使讀者能夠在設計中考慮未來的發展。
- 提供了Overlay Weaver P2P仿真器的在線訪問,這是一個開源工具,支持多種點對點應用程序,讀者可以通過該工具進行實踐。