Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Networking System
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A Peer-To-Peer System is a decentralized distributed system that in which individual nodes in the network (called "peers") act as both suppliers and consumers of resources.
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- See: Distributed Computing, Network Architecture, Node (Networking), Client–Server, Processing Power, Disk Storage, Network Bandwidth, Client (Computing), Server (Computing)]], Decentralized System.
References
2014
- (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer Retrieved:2014-3-16.
- A peer-to-peer (P2P) network is a type of decentralized and distributed network architecture in which individual nodes in the network (called "peers") act as both suppliers and consumers of resources, in contrast to the centralized client–server model where client nodes request access to resources provided by central servers.
In a peer-to-peer network, tasks (such as searching for files or streaming audio/video) are shared amongst multiple interconnected peers who each make a portion of their resources (such as processing power, disk storage or network bandwidth) directly available to other network participants, without the need for centralized coordination by servers. [1]
- A peer-to-peer (P2P) network is a type of decentralized and distributed network architecture in which individual nodes in the network (called "peers") act as both suppliers and consumers of resources, in contrast to the centralized client–server model where client nodes request access to resources provided by central servers.
- ↑ Rüdiger Schollmeier, A Definition of Peer-to-Peer Networking for the Classification of Peer-to-Peer Architectures and Applications, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing, IEEE (2002).