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General information, working groups, conferences
Peer-to-peer working group Link to the peer-to-peer working group
Peer-to-Peer Networking (Page of links) A bunch of links to projects, papers, and news
Peer to Peer - Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Tchnologies edited by Andy Oram Book published by O'Reilly Associates 2001 This book is a collection of articles, mostly descriptive, of peer to peer network systems.
Call for participation: The 1st International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS'02) The 1st International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS'02) 7-8 March 2001
Historical perspective
Grapevine: An Exercise in Distributed Computing A. D. Birrell, R. Levin, R. M. Needham, and M. D. Schroeder Communications of the ACM 25(4), pp. 260274 April 1982
Experience with Grapevine: The Growth of a Distributed System M.D. Schroeder, A.D. Birrell, and R.M. Needham, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 2(1):3--23 February 1984
A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4) Rkhter and Li RFC 1771 March 1995 A widely-used p2p system
Data distribution, file systems
Managing Update Conflicts in Bayou, a Weakly Connected Replicated Storage System D. Terry and M. Theimer and K. Petersen and A. Demers and M. Spreitzer and C. Hauser SOSP 1995 Classic paper on reconciliation of conflicting writes
Perpsectives on Optimistically Replicated Peer-to-Peer Filing Page, Guy, Heidemann, Ratner, Reiher, Goel, Kuenning, Popek Software-Practice and Experience V 28(2) 155-180 Feb 1998 Retrospective on the Ficus project
OceanStore: An Architecture for Global-Scale Persistent Storage John Kubiatowicz, David Bindel, Yan Chen, Steven Czerwinski, Patrick Eaton, Dennis Geels, Ramakrishna Gummadi, Sean Rhea, Hakim Weatherspoon, Westley Weimer, Chris Wells, and Ben Zhao. ASPLOS 2000
Freenet: A Distributed Anonymous Information Storage and Retrieval System Clarke, Sandberg, Wiley, Hong International Workshop on Design Issues in Anonymity and Unobservability 2001
Security/trust
"Protection in the Hydra Operating System" Ellis Cohen and Dvaid Jefferson Proceedings of SOSP, pp. 141-160 November 1975 Early paper on implementing protection and security at the user level.
SDSI - A Simple Distributed Security Infrastructure, Ronald Rivest and Butler Lampson 1996 Peer-to-peer security -- anyone can be a certificate authority
Consistency (see also file systems)
Naming
Reasoning About Naming Systems MIC BOWMAN, SAUMYA K. DEBRAY and LARRY L. PETERSON ACM TOPLAS November, 1993 Basic paper on naming system. One of few since the early papers in the 1970's.
Performance
Performance:topology
On the placement of Internet Instrumentations S. Jamin, C. Jin, Y. Jin, D. Raz, Y. Shavitt, and L. Zhang Proc of IEEE Infocom 2000
On Power-Law Relationships of the Internet Topology Michalis Faloutsos, Petros Faloutsos, and Christos Faloutsos SIGCOMM 1999
Performance:directory
Accessing nearby copies of replicated objects in a distributed environment. C. G. Plaxton, R. Rajaraman, and A. W. Richa. Proceedings of the 9th Annual ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architecture June 1997 An effort to build a scalable, distributed directory
Chord: A Scalable Peer-To-Peer Lookup Service for Internet Applications Ion Stoica (University of California at Berkeley), Robert Morris, David Karger, Frans Kaashoek, Hari Balakrishnan (MIT) SIGCOMM2001 2001
A Scalable Content-Addressable Network Sylvia Ratnasamy (University of California at Berkeley and ACIRI), Paul Francis (Tahoe Networks), Mark Handley (ACIRI), Richard Karp (U.C. Berkeley and ACIRI), Scott Shenker (ACIRI) SIGCOMM 2001 2001
Existing projects/systems
New papers (uncategorized)
Wide-area cooperative storage with CFS Frank Dabek, M. Frans Kaashoek, David Karger, Robert Morris, and Ion Stoica. 18th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '01) October 2001 My favorite P2P file system --wmf
decentralization mailing list high-level P2P discussion
p2p-hackers mailing list technical P2P discussion
Global-Scale Distributed Storage Systems (BlueSky) mailing list P2P file system discussion
Mojo Nation Technical Overview February 14, 2000 P2P file system w/ economic load balancing & freeloader-prevention
Swarmcast Justin Chapweske et al. P2P content delivery system based on forward error correction
Herald: Achieving a Global Event Notification Service Luis Felipe Cabrera, Michael B. Jones, and Marvin Theimer Eighth Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS-VIII) May 2001
ALPINE - Social Discovery in Peer Networks Martin R. Peck 5/30/2001 High level overview of existing search/discovery methods used in peer networks including a new method of a social discovery implemented by the ALPINE Network.
YouServ: A Web Hosting and Content Sharing Tool for the Masses R. Bayardo, R. Agrawal, D. Gruhl, A. Somani WWW-2002 2002 Application of p2p technology for communal/distributed web hosting
p2pNG (p2p Next Gen) http://sourceforge.net/projects/openp2p p2p Next Gen Discussion/Working Group for p2p standards & an anonymous communications standard over TCP/IP
JXTA (New Riders) Brendon J. Wilson July 2002 Complete book on JXTA, an XML-based set of protocols for handling all details of P2P networking.
Peer-to-Peer Caching Schemes to Address Flash Crowds Tyron Stading, Petros Maniatis, Mary Baker IPTPS'02 March 2002 Interesting application for defense against flash crowds.

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