Peer-to-Peer Networking Research Seminar

Prof. Peter Marbach (marbach@cs.toronto.edu)
Prof. Arno Jacobsen (jacobsen@eecg.toronto.edu)

The objective of this research group is to explore topics in peer-to-peer networking. Participation is on the basis of being an equal peer in this peer-group, i.e., contribute to the presentation of one topic.

1. Sept.: Overview of Peer-to-Peer Networking. Arno Jacobsen.

2. Sept.: The Domain Name System (DNS). Arno Jacobsen. [ Slides (PPT) ] [ Slides (PS) ]

3. Oct. 5: Napster. Iqbal Mohomed and Carl Nehme. [ Slides (PPT) ] [ Slides (PS) ]

4. Oct. 19: Gnutella. Hubert Leung and Christian Osterman. [ Slides ]

5. Nov 2: Mojo Nation. Dongning Tian and Lee Hyun Chul. [ PPT ] [ PS ]

6. Nov 16: Free Haven. Xiaoyang Guan and Quanhong Wang. [ PPT ] [ PDF ]

7. Nov 30: IM : How do instant messaging systems work? Xinran Wu and Clement Yuen. [ PPT ] [ PDF ]

8. Dec 7: Current Research in Peer-to-peer. Tasos Kementsietsidis, Kenneth Cheung, Verena Kantere [ PPT ].