Storage and Content Distribution in Cooperative Environments

Motivation and Approach

P2P computing has experienced an explosive growth in the last few years and a number of widely-deployed and research-oriented protocols have become available. Although the goal of most P2P systems is to provide general distributed resource sharing among the participating peers, two of the most popular applications are shared storage and content distribution.
In such systems, participating nodes, some of them contributing storage space, form a self-organized overlay network over which clients' requests, servers' replies and content are distributed. These architectures try to leverage the diversity and number of nodes and the nodes' collective storage to achieve increased availability.

In this project we are addressing some of the many challenges facing these applications, including:

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