Michael Halcrow wrote: >On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 04:07:15PM -0600, Dennis wrote: > > >>I'm playing around with some p2p stuff for school. >> >> > >Are you just playing, or are you trying to do real research in P2P? >Are you trying to find hey in a heystack, or are you trying to find a >needle in a heystack? > > Good question :D. I'm doing a survey to start off with, and I have most of the frameworks you mentioned below on my list already. What I'd like is to find an implementation of some of them that I could play around with so I can get a more "practical" or working knowledge of exactly how they work.
>If you are serious about an academic investigation of P2P, then I >recommend you forget about Gnutella, KaZaA, or any other >``best-effort'' shoot-from-the-hip solutions out there. Nobody in >academia takes these popular ``unstructured'' P2P apps seriously; you >will never get published in a reputable journal with any work you do >based on them. Various researchers (inspired by the likes of Greg >Plaxton) have been doing research in ``structured'' P2P solutions for >some time, like PRR, Tapestry, Pastry, and Chord. Hypercube routing is >currently the most promising mechanism for consistent, dependable, >comprehensive, and efficient P2P networks. > >I recommend you read this paper before you go any further: > >http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/lam/Vita/Cpapers/LiuLam03new.pdf > >(Disclaimer: I am currently taking an advanced networking protocols >graduate class from Dr. Lam, the co-author of that paper). > > Thanks, I'll check that out too. >It turns out that there are very good solutions out there that >simultaneously satisfy the constraints of (1) deterministic location, >(2) routing locality, (3) load balance, and (4) dynamic membership. If >you are going to spin your wheels in the academic P2P arena, you need >to be working with solutions that have some degree of respect within >that community. > > Well understood. After this paper, I begin work on my Thesis :( so I know all about it. >Mike >.___________________________________________________________________. > Michael A. Halcrow > Security Software Engineer, IBM Linux Technology Center >GnuPG Fingerprint: 419C 5B1E 948A FA73 A54C 20F5 DB40 8531 6DCA 8769 > >Diogenes, having abandoned his search for truth, is now searching >for a good fantasy. > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >/* >PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net >Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug >Don't fear the penguin. >*/ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
