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Advanced Topics in Peer-to-Peer Networks

Advanced Topics in Peer-to-Peer Networks

Code	11515
Year	1
Semester	S1
ECTS Credits	6
Workload	OT(15H)
Scientific area	Informatics
Entry requirements	There are no entry requirements.
Mode of delivery	Face-to-face learning.
Work placements	Not applicable.
Learning outcomes	The aim of the course is to provide students with a broad perspective on the state of the art of peer-to-peer networks and to provide students with skills to identify open problems and to conduct research in this area. At the end of the course the student should be able to characterize the state of the art and know the boundaries of knowledge on some topics of peer-to-peer networks, should be able to identify open problems in the field and be able to formulate possible solutions to those problems.
Syllabus	1. Overview of worldwide evolution of peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic. Overview of peer-to-peer systems 2. Peer-to-peer overlays. Peer-to-peer filesharing. 3. Unstructured peer-to-peer systems. Search methods. Adding structure to unstructured systems. 4. Distributed hash tables (DHT). Structured peer-to-peer systems. 5. Performance of peer-to-peer systems. 6. Peer-to-Peer media streaming. 7. Security issues in peer-to-peer networks. 8. Detection of encrypted peer-to-peer traffic.
Main Bibliography	Peer-to-peer systems, Comm. ACM, 2010. A Survey on Resource Discovery Mechanisms, Peer-To-Peer and Service Discovery Frameworks, Computer Net., 2008. Survey of Research Towards Robust Peer-To-Peer Networks: Search Methods, Computer Net., 2006. Kademlia: A Peer-to-Peer Information System Based on the XOR Metric, Int. Workshop Peer-to-Peer Systems, 2002. Pastry: Scalable, Decentralized Object Location, and Routing for Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Systems, IFIP/ACM Int. Conf. Dist. Systems Platf., 2001. A Survey of BitTorrent Performance, IEEE Comm. Surveys Tutorials, 2010. Survey of P2P Streaming Applications, IETF Internet-Draft, 2015. Incentive Mechanisms in P2P Media Streaming Systems, IEEE Internet Comp., 2010. Anonymity Analysis of P2P Anonymous Communication Systems, Comp. Comm., 2011. Detection and Classification of Peer-to-Peer Traffic: A Survey, ACM Comp. Surveys, 2013. Exploring Behavioral Patterns Through Entropy in Multimedia Peer-to-Peer Traffic, Computer J., 2012.
Language	Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.