Advances in Peer to Peer architectures!! PLEASE HELP!!!!

[prest88]

Hello all

 

I am wondering if anyone has any ideas or links to relevant material on any advances in peer to peer architectures? Mainly I am looking at Hybrid and Decentralised systems and if there are any areas these systems could be improved?? I am currently writing a report and my computer science skills are not the greatest so trying to find some modern techniques in this areathat i can actuall comprehend is proving difficult!!

 

Any Help would be amazing!!

 

Thanks Guys

[bascule]

Distributed Hash Tables are probably the central topic in peer-to-peer systems today.

 

There's also the P4P protocol which allows ISPs to both improve their customers' participation in peer-to-peer transfers but also more efficiently use the network.

[prest88]

Thanks,

 

Do you know anything, more specifically to do with file sharing networks, such as limewire using the gnutella network or bittorrents. I need a small area that is being improved or changed just to slightly improve the performance.

 

Im not a massive techy guy so sorry if this sounds like rubbish.

 

thanks again!