CS 6460 - [Peer-to-Peer Systems]

Spring. 4 credits.

Prerequisite: CS 6410 recommended.

Staff.

Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems, in which clients not only consume resources but also provide their own resources for the use of other clients, have emerged as a new architectural paradigm in distributed computing. This course examines peer-to-peer systems and discusses existing and new applications. Students are expected to perform extensive reading on P2P and build a peer-to-peer system as part of this course.