Research Information on Peer-to-Peer Computing

Peer to Peer (P2P) Computing

This page was compiled by Jenq-Haur Wang, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica. It was part of his recent surveys on peer-to-peer computing. The term peer-to-peer became popular since the middle of 2000.

[My Research]

Conferences and Workshops

* conferences or workshops with online proceedings available are marked with an asterisk (*).

IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing: P2P 2007 P2P 2006 P2P 2005 *P2P 2004 *(partial) P2P 2003 P2P 2002 P2P 2001
International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems: IPTPS 2007 IPTPS 2006 *IPTPS 2005 *IPTPS 2004 *IPTPS 2003 (LNCS 2735) *IPTPS 2002 (LNCS 2429)
International Workshop on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing: AP2PC 2006 AP2PC 2005 AP2PC 2004 (LNCS 3601) AP2PC 2003 (LNCS 2872) AP2PC 2002 (LNCS 2530)
International Workshop on Global and Peer-to-Peer Computing on Large Scale Distributed Systems: GP2PC 2006 GP2PC 2005 GP2PC 2004 GP2PC 2003 GP2PC 2002
Workshop on Economics of Peer-to-Peer Systems: P2Pecon 2005 *P2Pecon 2004 *P2Pecon 2003
International Workshop on Mobile Peer-to-Peer Computing: MP2P 2006 MP2P 2005 MP2P 2004
International Workshop on Databases, Information Systems, and Peer-to-Peer Computing: DBISP2P 2005 DBISP2P 2004, DBISP2P 2003 (LNCS 2944)
International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Computing:
part of the IFIP-TC6 Networking Conference: Networking 2004 (LNCS 3042) *Networking 2002 (LNCS 2376)
International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Information Management: in conjunction with The First International Conference on Scalable Information Systems (InfoScale 2006)
International Workshop on Reliable Peer-to-Peer Distributed Systems: RPPDS:
part of Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems: SRDS 2004 SRDS 2003 SRDS 2002
*SIGIR 2004 P2PIR: Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval.
ICDCS 2006
International Workshop on Mobility in Peer-to-Peer Systems: MPPS 2005 in conjunction with ICDCS 2005, ICDCS 2004 ICDCS 2003
ICDE 2006 ICDE 2005 ICDE 2004 ICDE 2003
SIGMOD 2006 SIGMOD 2005 SIGMOD 2004 SIGMOD 2003
IPDPS 2006 IPDPS 2005 IPDPS 2004 IPDPS 2003
PODC 2005 PODC 2004 PODC 2003
SOSP 2005 SOSP 2003
Middleware 2005 Middleware 2004 Middleware 2003 (LNCS 2672)
FuDiCo 2002 (LNCS 2584)
*Workshop on Design Issues in Anonymity and Unobservability (LNCS 2009)
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Community

Hector Garcia-Molina, Brian Cooper, Beverly Yang, and Mario Schlosser (Stanford University, Database Group)
John Kubiatowicz, Anthony Joseph, and Ben Zhao (U.C.Berkeley)
Hari Balakrishnan, David Karger, Robert Morris (MIT, Laboratory for Computer Science) , Ion Stoica (U.C.Berkeley), and Frans Kaashoek (MIT)
Peter Druschel (Rice University), and Antony Rowstron (MS Research)
Karl Aberer and Manfred Hauswirth. (LSIR, EPFL, Switzerland)
Sylvia Ratnasamy, Paul Francis, Mark Handley, Richard Karp, and Scott Shenker. (AT&T Center for Internet Research at ICSI and Dept. of EECS, U.C.Berkeley)
Ian Clarke, Oskar Sandberg, Brandon Wiley, and Theodore W. Hong.
Roger Dingledine, Michael J. Freedman, (MIT) and David Molnar. (Harvard)
Chunqiang Tang, Zhichen Xu, and Sandhya Dwarkadas, (U. Rochester)
Francisco Matias Cuenca-Acuna, Christopher Peery, Richard Martins, and Thu D. Nguyen. (Dept. of CS, Rutgers University)
Ooi Beng Chin, Tan Kian Lee, Stephane Bressan, and Panagiotis Kalnis. (Dept. of Computer Science, National University of Singapore)
Qin Lv (, Kai Li) (Princeton University), Scott Shenker (ICSI AT&T), Edith Cohen (AT&T), and Amos Fiat (Israel)
Amin Vahdat, and Patrick Reynolds, (Dept. of Computer Science, Duke University)
Li Gong (Sun Microsystems)
Renée J. Miller, Anastasios Kementsietsidis, and Marcelo Arenas (U. Toronto)
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Projects

Stanford Peers Project: Stanford University
Tapestry: U.C Berkeley. (OceanStore Project)
Chord Project: MIT
Pastry/PAST: Rice University & MS Research.
P-Grid: LSIR, EPFL, Switzerland.
CAN: U.C.Berkeley & ACIRI.
Freenet: Ian Clarke, et. al.
Free Haven Project (& Tarzan): MIT
PlanetP Project: Rutgers University.
BestPeer Project : Dept. of Computer Science, National University of Singapore
JXTA: Sun Microsystems
Hyperion Project: Univ. of Toronto.
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Papers and Technical Reports

Performance Evaluation (PE), Special Issue on Performance Modeling and Evaluation of Peer-to-Peer Computing Systems.
European Transactions on Telecommunications (ETT), Special Issue on P2P Networking and P2P Services.
IEEE TKDE, Special Issue on Peer-to-Peer based Data Management, 2Q 2004.
Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Special Issue on P2P Computing and Interaction with Grids.
SIGMOD Record, Special Section on Peer-to-Peer Data Management, Vol. 32, No. 3, Sep. 2003.
Ion Stoica, Robert Morris, David Karger, M. Frans Kaashoek, and Hari Balakrishnan, Chord: A Scalable Peer-to-peer Lookup Service for Internet Applications, ACM SIGCOMM 2001, San Deigo, CA, August 2001, pp. 149-160.
Sylvia Ratnasamy, Paul Francis, Mark Handley, Richard Karp, and Scott Shenker, A Scalable Content-Addressable Network, Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2001.
Beverly Yang and Hector Garcia-Molina, Efficient Search in Peer-to-Peer Networks, ICDCS 2002.
Beverly Yang and Hector Garcia-Molina, Designing a Super-Peer Network, ICDE 2003.
Beverly Yang and Hector Garcia-Molina, Open Problems in Data-Sharing Peer-to-Peer Systems, ICDT 2003.
Ben Y. Zhao, Ling Huang, Jeremy Stribling, Sean C. Rhea, Anthony D. Joseph, and John D. Kubiatowicz, Tapestry: A Resilient Global-scale Overlay for Service Deployment, To appear in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (4th quarter, 2003)
Francisco Matias Cuenca-Acuna and Thu D. Nguyen, Text-Based Content Search and Retrieval in ad hoc P2P Communities, International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Computing, Networking 2002.
Qin Lv, Pei Cao, Edith Cohen, Kai Li, and Scott Shenker, Search and Replication in Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Networks, ACM ICS '02, and ACM SigMetrics 2002 Poster.
Qin Lv, Sylvia Ratnasamy, and Scott Shenker, "Can Heterogeneity Make Gnutella Scalable?", IPTPS 2002.
Efficient Peer-to-Peer Keyword Searching, by Patrick Reynolds and Amin Vahdat, Middleware 2003.
C. Tang, Z. Xu, and S. Dwarkadas, Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval Using Self-Organizing Semantic Overlay Networks, Proc. SIGCOMM 2003, pp. 175-186.
IEEE Internet Computing, Vol. 6, No. 1, Jan./Feb. 2002.
Communications of the ACM, Special Issue on Technical and Social Components of Peer-to-Peer Computing, Vol. 46, No. 2, Feb. 2003.
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Books

Peer-to-Peer: Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Technologies, ed. Andy Oram, O'reilly, 2001.

Systems

Napster
Gnutella
Freenet
Morpheus
SETI@home
Jabber
.NET
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Local Conferences

2004 Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P 2004)
2004 Summer Institute on Peer-to-Peer Computing

Local Community and Projects

Tornado: Hung-Chang Hsiao (蕭宏章), Chung-Ta King (金仲達) (NTHU)
Chun-Hsin Wu (吳俊興), H. T. Kung (孔祥重) (Academia Sinica)
Yuh-Jzer Joung (莊裕澤) (NTU, IM)
Ren-Hung Hwang (黃仁竑) (CCU, CS)
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