Anthill: a Framework for the Design and Analysis of Peer-to-Peer Systems
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The peer-to-peer (P2P) paradigm for building distributed applications has recently attracted the attention of industry and media primarily due to the enormous success of systems such as Napster, Gnutella and Freenet. The multitude of projects that have been proposed based on P2P all need to confront common problems including security, reliability and routing. Unfortunately, traditional techniques for dealing with these issues are not directly applicable to P2P systems in part due to the dimensions of their scale. In this paper, we introduce a new approach for designing P2P applications based on the biological metaphor of ant colonies. Furthermore, we present Anthill, a framework supporting the development and study of new protocols based on the P2P approach.
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Anthill: a Framework for the Design and the Analysis of Peer-to-Peer Systems
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