Peer-to-Peer Systems and Probabilistic Protocols
2012; Springer International Publishing; Linguagem: Inglês
10.1007/978-1-4471-2416-0_21
ISSN1868-095X
Autores Tópico(s)Data Management and Algorithms
ResumoIn this chapter, we consider a number of protocols representative of a new wave of research and commercial activity in distributed computing. The protocols in question share two characteristics. First, they exploit what are called peer-to-peer communication patterns. Peer-to-peer computing is in some ways a meaningless categorization, since all of the protocols we have discussed in this book involve direct exchanges of messages between “peers.” A better term might be “client to client” protocols, because most peer-to-peer systems emerge from a world of client/server computing, but replace some or all functions of the servers by functionality hosted on the clients themselves. Secondly, and in distinction from the protocols covered in Chaps. 12 – 14 , these protocols typically offer stochastic (probabilistic) guarantees.
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