Overlay networks : toward information networking /

With their ability to solve problems in massive information distribution and processing, while keeping scaling costs low, overlay systems represent a rapidly growing area of R & D with important implications for the evolution of Internet architecture. Inspired by the author's articles on co...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Tarkoma, Sasu
Corporate Author:	Taylor & Francis
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Boca Raton [Fla.] : CRC Press, ©2010.
Subjects:	Information networks. Peer-to-peer architecture (Computer networks) Electronic data processing > Distributed processing. Multimedia communications. Réseaux d'information. P2P (Réseaux d'ordinateurs) Traitement réparti. Réseaux multimédias. COMPUTERS > Computer Literacy. COMPUTERS > Computer Science. COMPUTERS > Data Processing. COMPUTERS > Hardware > General. COMPUTERS > Information Technology. COMPUTERS > Machine Theory. COMPUTERS > Reference. Electronic data processing > Distributed processing Information networks Multimedia communications Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Network technologies
3. Properties of networks and data
4. Unstructured overlays
5. Foundations of structured overlays
6. Distributed hash tables
7. Probabilistic algorithms
8. Content-based networking and publish/subscribe
9. Security
10. Applications
11. Conclusions.