A peer-to-peer architectural model defines an overlay network topology and a routing strategy. If these aspects are tied together by a deterministic logical model, we say that the architecture is structured. Otherwise, we say it is unstructured. Based on these assumptions, in recent years many complex P2P architectural models have been defined, their performance evaluation being carried out mai...

Grid and P2P are both popular distributed network models nowadays. The grid is a platform to compactly coordinate the distributed resources, while the P2P model assigns an equal position to each peer and allows all the peers to move freely. Because of their different architectures, these two models have their own advantages and limitations, and therefore are used in different applications. In t...

This paper establishes an objective and comprehensive evaluation index system of online P2P lending platforms based on the online P2P lending theory with the Analytic Hierarchy Process in the perspective of lenders. It also makes the empirical analysis which takes ten P2P platforms as examples. The results show that the evaluation system is scientific and reasonable, which can provide reference...

Gender discrimination in accessing financial resources is a mounting concern in developing countries, but empirical evidence of such discrimination is limited. Using data collected from PPdai.com, one of the largest P2P lending platforms in China, we investigate potential gender discrimination in online P2P credit lending market in China. The results illustrate that female borrowers are more li...

Metadata for the World Wide Web are important, but metadata for Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks are absolutely crucial. In this paper we discuss the open source project Edutella, which combines semantic web and peer-to-peer technologies in order to make distributed learning repositories possible and useful. We describe the main services of the Edutella network infrastructure and its architecture ba...

The future of peer-to-peer file-sharing and related technologies is entwined, for better or worse, with copyright law. This paper aims to present a layperson's introduction to the copyright law principles most pertinent to peer-to-peer developers, including contributory and vicarious liability principles and potential legal defenses. After describing the current shape of the law, the paper conc...

In Peer-to-Peer networks based on consistent hashing and ring topology each peer is responsible for an interval chosen (pseudo-) randomly on a circle. The topology of the network, the communication load and the amount of data a peer stores depends heavily on the length

Open peer-to-peer architectures offer many possibilities for replicating database content, but designers have to deal with problems such as peer churn rates and inherent uncertainty in decision making. The lack of global knowledge of peer characteristics poses the specific problem of reliable peer discovery for database replica placement. This paper describes a self-organising algorithm for gen...

Emerging peer-to-peer applications require efficient group communication. However, current techniques for group communication are not optimal for peer-to-peer networks, which do not have group communication methods themselves. This paper presents the novel multiring topology, which is designed to meet requirements of high performance group communication in peer-to-peer networks. It improves dat...