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2. What Is This “Peer-to-Peer” About?

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Peer-to-Peer Systems and Applications

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Currently, a new and highly interesting paradigm for communication on the Internet, known as Peer-to-Peer (P2P), is emerging. Although originally designed exclusively for pragmatic (and legally controversial) file swapping applications, Peer-to-Peer mechanisms can be used to access any kind of distributed resources and may offer new possibilities for Internet-based applications.

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  1. Technische Universität Darmstadt,  

    Ralf Steinmetz

  2. Universität Tübingen,  

    Klaus Wehrle

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany

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  2. University of Tübingen,  

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Steinmetz, R., Wehrle, K. (2005). 2. What Is This “Peer-to-Peer” About?. In: Steinmetz, R., Wehrle, K. (eds) Peer-to-Peer Systems and Applications. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3485. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11530657_2

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