* The book examines the different legitimate applications used over a peer-to-peer network (p2p) * The material examines the design and development of novel applications designed to leverage the distributed nature of peer-to-peer environments * ...

Content distribution networks (CDNs) are the most promising new techniques for coping with the huge and swiftly growing volume of Internet traffic. In essence, CDNs are groups of proxy-servers located at strategic points around the Internet and ar...