Handbook of Peer-to-Peer Networking

This book is written for researchers, professionals, and computer science and engineering students at the advanced undergraduate level and higher who are familiar with networking and network protocol concepts and basic ideas about algorithms. For the more advanced parts of the book, the reader should have general familiarity with Internet protocols such as TCP and IP routing. For some sections of the book such as discussions of mobility or multicasting, familiarity with mobility in IP and IP multicasting will be helpful but is not required. The Handbook of Peer-to-Peer Networking is intended to provide readers with a comprehensive reference for the most current developments in the field. It offers broad coverage P2P networking with fifty chapters written by international experts. In addition, we hope the book becomes an important reference to those who are active in the field.