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Peer-to-Peer Netw. Appl. (2015) 8:555556 DOI 10.1007/s12083-014-0298-7
Distributed hybrid P2P networking systems
Jungsoo Han
Published online: 20 June 2014# Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014
Welcome to the special issue of Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications. This issue contains a collection of the best papers out of various authors who have been submitted to this special issue. Most multimedia-based content service environments are embedded in a large-capacity server and adopt the clientserver model. In such a model, excessive load on the server can slow down or break the network. This problem can be solved by applying a peer-to-peer (P2P) network in a distributed environment for smoother sharing and distribution of resources. Depending on the existence of an index server, the P2P models are categorized as hybrid peer-to-peer and pure peer-to-peer networks. A hybrid P2P network is one that has an index server containing information on the locations of resources at the center, and which uses the index server for search. A pure P2P network is one that directly executes the search process among hosts without a server between the hosts [911].
The main goal of this issue is to bring together researchers and practitioners in areas of media streaming, multicasting and multimedia delivery, P2P file sharing to share their visions, research achievements and solutions, to resolve the challenge issues and to establish worldwide cooperative researches and developments. This will give an opportunity to push further the discussion upon the potential distributed hybrid networking systems across many communities. Some of these research areas are listed below.
& Hybrid P2P networking system& Knowledge based Applications and Management & Multicasting and multimedia delivery& P2P Overlay networks& P2P Security issues
& P2P Wireless and mobile networks& Architectures and protocols& Convergence/co-existence of P2P and other networks & Data and index structures& Modeling, performance and robustness& Semantic routing and search& Systems Analysis, Design and Development
This special issue has become one of the hottest topics in distributed hybrid P2P networking systems. We believe that issue will have a high citation in the areas of Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications.
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