P2P Resources

P2P Links:

• People
• Books
• Upcoming Conferences
• Research papers and Presentations
• General Links

People:

• Hector-Garcia Molina, Stanford University, USA
• Karl Aberer, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
• Manfred Hauswirth, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
• Dan Wallach, Rice University, Texas, USA
• Neil Daswani, Stanford University, USA

Books:

• A. Oram, Editor. Peer-to-peer: Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Technologies. O'Reilly and Associates Inc., 2001. ISBN - 0-596-00110-X.
• B. Leuf, Peer-to-peer: Collaboration and Sharing over the Internet. Addison-Wesley Professional, 2002. ISBN - 0-2017-6732-5.
• Dreamtech Software Team, Cracking the code: Peer-to-peer Application Development. Hungry Minds Inc., 2002. ISBN - 0-7645-4904-9.

Upcoming Conferences:

• ACM SIGCOMM 2005, August 20 - 26, Philadelphia, USA (Submissions closed )
• Euro-Par 2005, August 30 - September 2, 2005, Lisboa, Portugal (Submissions closed )
• The Fifth IEEE Conference on Peer-to-peer computing (P2P 2005), August 31 - September, 2005, Konstanz, Germany (Submissions closed )
• Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2005), August 11-14, Omaha, Nebraska, USA (Submissions closed )
• Second International Workshop on Hot Topics in Peer-to-Peer Systems (HOT-P2P'05), July 21, 2005, San Diego, California, USA (Submissions closed)
• Workshop on Information Retrieval in Peer-to-Peer Networks (P2PIR05), in accordance with 14th ACM conference on Information and Knowledge management (CIKM), 31 Oct - 5th Nov, 2005, Bremen, Germany. (Submissions closed )
• IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications: Special edition on Peer-to-peer communications and applications. (Manuscript Submissions: December 15, 2005)
• IEEE International Conference on Communications, Network Security symposium, 11-15 June, 2006, Istanbul, Turkey (Submission date: September 15, 2005)

Research Papers and Presentations:

General P2P:

• D. S. Milojicic, V. Kalogeraki, R. Lukose, K. Nagaraja, J. Pruyne, B. Richard, S. Rollins, and Z. Xu. Peer-to-peer computing. Technical Report HPL-2002-57, HP Labs, March 2002.
• I. Foster and A. Iamnitchi. On Death, Taxes, and the Convergence of Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing. In F. Kaashoek and I. Stoica, editors, Proceedings of 2nd International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS'03), pages 118-128. Springer-Verlag LNCS 2735, 2003

P2P Security:

• N. Daswani, H. Garcia-Molina, and B. Yang. Open problems in data-sharing peer-to-peer systems. In D. Calvanese, M. Lenzerini, and R. Motwani, editors, Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT'03), volume 2572 of LNCS, pages 1-15. Springer, 2003.
• D. S.Wallach. A survey of peer-to-peer security issues. In M. Okada, B. C. Pierce, A. Scedrov, H. Tokuda, and A. Yonezawa, editors, Software Security - Theories and Systems, International Symposium, ISSS 2002, volume 2609 of LNCS, pages 42-57. Springer, 2003.
• A. Datta, M. Hauswirth, and K. Aberer. Beyond 'web of trust': enabling P2P ecommerce. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Electronic Commerce (CEC'03), pages 303-312. IEEE Computer Society Press, June 2003.
• S. E. Schechter, R. A. Greenstadt, and M. D. Smith. Trusted computing, peer-to-peer distribution and the economics of pirated entertainment. In The Second Workshop on Economics and Information Security. May 2003.
• S. Marti and H. Garcia-Molina. Identity-crisis: anonymity vs reputation in p2p systems. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Peer-to-Peer computing (P2P' 03), pages 134-141. IEEE Computer Society Press, September 2003.
• N. Daswani and H. Garcia-Molina. Query-flood DoS attacks in gnutella. In V. Atluri, editor, Proceedings of the 9th ACM conference on Computer and Communications Security, pages 181 - 192. ACM Press, 2002.
• E. Damiani, S. De Capitani di Vimercati, S. Paraboschi, P. Samarati, and F. Violante. A reputation-based approach for choosing reliable resources in peer-to-peer networks. In V. Atluri, editor, Proceedings of the 9th ACM conference on Computer and Communications Security, pages 207-216. ACM Press, 2002.
• N. Daswani, P. Golle, S. Marti, H. Garcia-Molina, and D. Boneh. Evaluating reputation systems for document authenticity. Technical report, Computer Science Department, Stanford University, 2003.
• R. Dingledine, N. Mathewson, and P. Syverson. Reputation in P2P Anonymity Systems, In Workshop on economics of p2p systems, June 2003.
• M. Hauswirth, A. Datta, and K. Aberer. Handling identity in peer-to-peer systems. In Proceedings of the 14th Internation Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications, pages 942 - 946. IEEE Computer Society Press, 2003.
• K. Aberer and Z. Despotovic. Managing trust in p2p information systems. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, pages 310 - 317. ACM Press, 2001.
• L. Xiao, Z. Xu, X. Zhang. Mutual anonymity protocols for hybrid peer-to-peer systems. Technical Report HPL-2001-204, HP Labs, February 2003.

General Links:

• Intel's P2P working group
• Peers group at Stanford
• LSIR at EPFL, Lausanne
• Pastry project at Microsoft Research
• The infamous Napster, Kazaa ... etc
• A listing of P2P companies working in commercial (Page 1 and Page 2) and non-commercial areas.