Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems are decentralized, self-organizing distributed systems that cooperate to exchange data. These systems have emerged as the dominant consumer of residential Internet subscribers' bandwidth, and are being increasingly used in many different application domains. In the last f…
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems are decentralized, self-organizing distributed systems that cooperate to exchange data. These systems have emerged as the dominant consumer of residential Internet subscribers' bandwidth, and are being increasingly used in many different application domains. In the last few years, research on P2P systems has been quite intensive, and has produced remarkable results in scalability, robustness, location, distributed storage, and system measurements. Consequently, P2P systems continue to evolve, differentiating today's state-of-the-art from earlier instantiations such as Napster, KaZaA, Gnutella, and Morpheus.
Hot Topics in Peer-to-Peer Systems 2005 aims to bring together researchers and practitioners, from both industry and academia, in the fields of systems, networking, and theory, and to represent an occasion to share latest research results and ideas on P2P systems, thereby promoting research activities in this area. In addition to regular research papers to be selected on standard peer review, the program of the workshop will include invited talks, position papers, and panel discussions.
