P2P Explained: What Exactly is a Peer Network? @ WEB 2.0 JOURNAL

Peer networks are really just logical graphs of computers, or, in many cases, logical graphs of connected applications. The physical topology of the peer network, means of communication, and weighting of the edges are all implementation-specific details that differ from P2P network to P2P network, but all of them can be reduced down at some point to a drawing containing nodes and edges.

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Anonymous commented on the 23 May 2008

Kevin,

One of the key pieces of information that a peer node needs to join the mesh, is the address of SOME peer node that is already in the network. You didn't really explain how the different variations on the P2P theme deal with that, except for the hybrid model with the static central node, which can be advertised out-of-band and expected to be always on. Can you say more about how that problem is solved?

Daniella commented on the 30 Apr 2008

I liked the post :) interesting!

SH commented on the 29 Apr 2008

Great post! But why the term "logical graphs" instead of just "graphs"? You simply mean "nodes and edges", I believe, and not [[visit link] Logical Graph]. Picky, I know, but it goes even a step further in avoiding buzzwords.

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