Peer-to-peer Networks - Promises and Challenges
Speaker: Dr Marius Portmann, ITEE
When: 2004-12-01 15:30:00
Venue: 78-420
Host: Prof Neil Bergmann
Abstract:Peer-to-peer networks have received a tremendous amount of attention
in recent times. Even though the focus has largely been on
file-sharing applications, peer-to-peer networks have a great
potential to serve as a basis for a wide range of large-scale
distributed applications, due their inherent scalability, robustness
and self-organising nature.
The seminar will give a background on peer-to-peer computing in
general and will specifically focus on structured peer-to-peer
networks. An overview of the potential applications and the
challenges that remain to be overcome will be given.
One of these challenges is the lack of a generic infrastructure for
structured peer-to-peer networks. This results in a great
duplication of effort in terms of development and deployment of
peer-to-peer applications.
As a solution to this problem, the seminar presents a Programmable
Structured Peer-to-peer network, which can serve as a shared
platform for a wide range of peer-to-peer applications.
Biography:Marius Portmann has a M. Sc. (1998) and PhD (2002) in Electrical
Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH). He
is currently a lecturer at the School of ITEE at UQ. Previous to
that, Marius Portmann held the position of Research Manager at the
School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications at the
University of new South Wales. His main research interest is in data
networks, specifically peer-to-peer networking and security.
Type: ITEE Seminar
Contact:Prof Neil Bergmann, seminar host (n.bergmann@itee.uq.edu.au)
or Guido Governatori (ITEE seminar co-ordinator)
(guido@itee.uq.edu.au)