Peer-To-Peer Computing: The Evolution of a Disruptive Technology (Hardcover)

Foreword; John Patrick; Introduction: Peer-to-peer Computing: The Evolution of a Dirsuptive Technology; Ramesh Subramanian, Quinnipiac University, USA; Brian D. Goodman, IBM, USA; Section 1: Then and now - Understanding P2P spirit, networks, content distribution and data storage; Chapter 1: Core Concepts in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networking; Detlef Schoder, Kai Fischbach, and Christian Schmitt, University of Cologne, Germany; Chapter 2: Peer-to-Peer Content Distribution Networks; Choon Hoong Ding, Sarana Nutanong, Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia; Chapter 3: Using Peer-to-peer systems for Data Management; Dinesh C. Verma, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA; Chapter 4: Peer to Peer Information Storage and Discovery Systems; Cristina Schmidt and Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA; Section 2: Systems and assets - issues arising from decentralized networks in security and law; Chapter 5 : Peer-to-Peer Security Issues in Nomadic Networks; Ross Lee Graham, Mid-Sweden University, Sweden; Chapter 6: Potential data security issues in a P2P network; Sridhar Asvathanarayanan, X.L. America, Inc., USA; Chapter 7: Security and Trust in P2P Systems; Michael Bursell, Arcot Systems, Essex, UK; Chapter 8: Peer to Peer Technology and the Copyright Crossroads; Stacey Dogan, Northeastern University School of Law, Boston, USA; Section 3: P2P Domain Proliferation - perspectives and influences of peer concepts on collaboration, web services and grid computing; Chapter 9 : Personal Peer-to-Peer Collaboration based on Shared Objects; Werner Geyer, Li-Te Cheng, Michael J. Muller, IBM T.J. Watson Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; Juergen Vogel, University of Mannheim, Germany; Chapter 10: Let me know what you know: ReachOut as a model for a P2P knowledge sharing network; Vladimir Soroka, Michal Jacovi, Yoelle S. Maarek, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Haifa, Israel; Chapter 11: Grid Economics: 10 Lessons from Finance for commercial sharing of IT resources; Giorgos Cheliotis, IBM Research, Zurich, Switzerland, Chris Kenyon, IBM Research, Zurich Research Lab, Zurich, Switzerland; Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia; Chapter 12: Applications of Web Services in Bioinformatics; Xin Li & Aryya Gangopadhyay, University of Maryland-Baltimore County, MD, USA; Chapter 13: Content Delivery Services in a Grid Environment; Irwin Boutboul and Dikran S Meliksetian, IBM, Internet Technology