P2P Networks: principles and simulation

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) focuses on the idea of sharing any kind of resource. This can be memory (e.g. RAM), computer power (e.g. CPU) or data in a general matter. Although various P2P-applications are used in a significant way on the internet, one of the most common application is content distribution, better known as file sharing. With the start of Napster [1] in 1998, file-sharing applications h...