About the Peer-to-Peer Discussion Group

• The P2P Discussion Group (DG) is an opportunity to meet and to discuss with people who are interested in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems and massively distributed systems. We analyze current developments and trends in this field of research.
• The P2P DG is no official lecture but a chance to get deeper insights into current P2P developments. It is also an opportunity to meet other students, research assistants, and professors who are active in this field of research.
• Participating is a good chance to identify and prepare your topic for a seminar, Bachelor's or Master's thesis.
• The P2P DG meetings consist of a short presentation of a hot topic in P2P networking followed by an informal discussion of this topic. What's important about the topic? How did the authors solve the problems at hand? Do we agree with these solutions? Is there any design space for alternative solutions? Are there any "follow-up problems"?

Organizational Information

• Contact: Tobias Heer, Simon Rieche
• Feel free to register on our p2p-dg mailing list if you are interested in our Discussion Group activities. If you are interested in announcements relevant to our teaching activities or any other of the DS group's activities, you're more than welcome on our ds-interest mailing list.
• You don't have to attend the P2P DG on a regular basis. Just drop by whenever you can manage.
• There are no formal requirements which have to be fulfilled in order to participate. However, a basic understanding of P2P systems and network communication helps to keep the discussions on a high level. Attending the lecture Massively Distributed Systems I or the seminar Massively Distributed Systems provides such basic knowledge.

Dates

• We meet every Monday from 14:00h to 15:30h in seminar room E1-4108 (Informatikzentrum, Chair for Computer Science IV, Besprechungsraum).

Previous topics

• Naming and Addressing
• Caching in Distributed Hash Tables
• DHT routing: Some open questions
• DHTs in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks?

Possible future topics

• Data consistency in dynamic networks
• Trust in totally decentralized, unmanaged systems
• Security in DHTs
• Overlay routing in the underlay network