* The book examines the different legitimate applications used
over a peer-to-peer network (p2p)
* The material examines the design and development of novel
applications designed to leverage the distributed nature of
peer-to-peer environments
* Goes beyond the most popular application of file-sharing
(including sharing of video and audio files) and discusses the many
different applications
* Compares traditional and peer-to-peer infrastructure and
discusses merits and demerits of each approach from a business
perspective
Circa l’autore
DINESH C. VERMA, Ph D, is Manager of the Policy and Networking Group at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, New York. He received his doctorate from University of California, Berkeley, and holds more than fourteen patents in the area of computer networking. Dr. Verma is the author of Content Distribution Networks: An Engineering Approach (published by Wiley).