Cross-Layer Aspects of Peer-to-Peer Overlays on IP Platforms of Network Providers

  • Authors:
  • Gerhard Hassligner

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • P2P '08 Proceedings of the 2008 Eighth International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks have introduced a distributed communication paradigm, which is useful for many communication services and still accounts for a considerable fraction of the Internet traffic. We discuss the efficiency of P2P content distribution as compared to alternative content delivery overlays.