ACM Home Page
Please provide us with feedback. Feedback
Digital Library logoTake a look at the new version of this page: [ beta version ]. Tell us what you think.
Interoperability of peer-to-peer file sharing protocols
Full text PdfPdf (43 KB)
Source ACM SIGecom Exchanges archive
Volume 3 ,  Issue 3  (Summer, 2002) table of contents
Pages: 25 - 33  
Year of Publication: 2002
Authors
Siu Man Lui  Department of Information and Systems Management, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China
Sai Ho Kwok  Department of Information and Systems Management, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China
Publisher
ACM  New York, NY, USA
Bibliometrics
Downloads (6 Weeks): 6,   Downloads (12 Months): 73,   Citation Count: 5
Additional Information:

abstract   references   cited by   index terms   collaborative colleagues  

Tools and Actions: Review this Article  
DOI Bookmark: Use this link to bookmark this Article: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/844339.844350
What is a DOI?

Warning: The download time has expired please click on the item to try again.


ABSTRACT

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file sharing software has brought a hot discussion on P2P file sharing among all businesses. Freenet, Gnutella, and Napster are the three most popular P2P file sharing applications. They use three distinct protocols and these protocols come with different characteristics. In this paper, we discuss the protocols of these P2P file sharing applications, in terms of the methodologies used for peer registry, query and content sharing. In order to maximize the benefit of P2P file sharing application that is to facilitate file sharing among various P2P file sharing applications, we propose a framework to integrate various P2P file sharing protocols using P2P gateway in this paper.


REFERENCES

Note: OCR errors may be found in this Reference List extracted from the full text article. ACM has opted to expose the complete List rather than only correct and linked references.

 
1
1. Freenet, http://freenetproject.org/lang/en/.
 
2
2. Freenet documentation, http://freenet.sourceforge.net/doc/book.html.
 
3
3. Gnutella, http://www.gnutelliums.com.
 
4
4. Gnutella Protocol Specification Version 0.4, http://www.clip2.com.
 
5
5. I. Clarke. (1999). "A distributed decentralized information storage and retrieval system," unpublished report. Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, http://www.freenetproject.org.
 
6
6. Napster Inc., http://www.napster.com.
 
7
7. "Napster protocol specification," http://opennap. sourceforge.net/napster.txt.
 
8
8. Postel, J. (1981). Transmission Control Protocol, RFC-793. Network Information Center, SRI International.
 
9
9. R.Fuekding, J. Gettys, J. Mogul, H. Frystyk, L. Masinter, P. Leach, and T. Berners-Lee. (1999). Hypertext transfer protocol - http/1.1 Technical Report RFC2626, IETF.
 
10
10. What is peer-to-peer?. Peer-to-Peer working group. http://www.p2pwg.org.
 
11
11. S. Saroiu, P. Gummadi, and S. Gribbe (2002). "A measurement study of peer-to-peer file sharing systems". Technical report UW-CSE-01-06002, University of Washington.


Collaborative Colleagues:
Siu Man Lui: colleagues
Sai Ho Kwok: colleagues