A definition of peer-to-peer networking for the classification of peer-to-peer architectures and applications

14 November 2002

proceedings article
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

p. 101-102
https://doi.org/10.1109/p2p.2001.990434

Abstract

The main contribution of the poster, which is shortly outlined in the following, is to offer a definition for Peer- to-Peer networking and to make the differences to com- mon so called Client/Server-architectures clear. With this definition we are able to classify currently existing networking concepts in the Internet either as "Pure" Peer-to-Peer, or "Hybrid" Peer-to-Peer or Client/Server architecture.

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