Looking up data in P2P systems

  • Authors:
  • Hari Balakrishnan;M. Frans Kaashoek;David Karger;Robert Morris;Ion Stoica

  • Affiliations:
  • MIT, Cambridge, MA;MIT, LCS;LCS;LCS;University of California, Berkeley

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

The main challenge in P2P computing is to design and implement a robust and scalable distributed system composed of inexpensive, individually unreliable computers in unrelated administrative domains. The participants in a typical P2P system might include computers at homes, schools, and businesses, and can grow to several million concurrent participants.