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The goal of this thesis is to present a thorough study of peer-to-peer
services. The study should present the flaws in some of todays services
and suggest improvements. File sharing, the most well known service,
will be the service receiving the most attention. The requirements of
the thesis can be summarized as follows.
- Investigate existing peer-to-peer services and analyze
their performance, especially file sharing systems should be
considered.
- Identify the key components in a generic peer-to-peer system, their
responsibilities and interaction.
- Design a framework from which efficient peer-to-peer systems can
be built.
- Investigate file sharing and discuss protocol performance
related topics such as:
- caching methods
- hierarchical
aggregation
- specialized directories
- Look at other applications and frameworks for peer-to-peer
services and see how they can benefit from the earlier work.
Marcus Bergner
2003-06-10