Social networking in P2P systems

• Main Author: Kalra, Ritesh
• Other Authors: Anwitaman Datta
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computer systems organization::Computer-communication networks
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/44178
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The first generation peer-to-peer file sharing networks, such as Napster, relied on a central database to co-ordinate look ups on the network. The second generation peer to-peer networks such as Gnutella used flooding to locate files, searching every node on the network. Third generation peer-to-pee...