BestPeer: a self-configurable peer-to-peer system

Author

Ng, Wee Siong ; Ooi, Beng Chin ; Tan, Kian-Lee

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

272

Abstract

We present BestPeer, a prototype P2P system that we have implemented at the National University of Singapore. BestPeer is a generic P2P system designed to serve as a platform on which P2P applications can be developed easily and efficiently. The network consists of two types of entities: a large number of computers (nodes), and a relatively fewer number of location independent global name lookup (LIGLO) servers. Each participating node runs the BestPeer (Java-based) software and will be able to communicate or share resources with any other nodes (i.e., peers) in the BestPeer network. Each node comprises two types of data: private data and sharable data. Nodes can only access peers´ data that are sharable

Keywords

Java; distributed processing; query processing; BestPeer; Java-based software; computers; location independent global name lookup servers; private data; self-configurable peer-to-peer system; sharable data; Application software; Computer networks; Computer science; File servers; Filtering; Java; Mobile agents; Network servers; Peer to peer computing; Prototypes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Data Engineering, 2002. Proceedings. 18th International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

ISSN

1063-6382

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1531-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDE.2002.994726

Filename

994726