Workshop URL: www.iwap2pt09.org
The enduring digital insurrection has brought on the appearance of new network applications intended to speed up worldwide sharing of information. The applications have embraced the well-known peer-to-peer (P2P) technology in innovative ways, eternally altering the world of personal computing. P2P systems—an alternative to conventional client–server systems— mostly support applications that offer file sharing and content exchange like music, movies, etc. The concept has also been effectively employed for high performance computing, Internet-based telephony etc. The unanticipated growth in popularity of P2P systems has raised a number of significant problems. This situation has led academicians and industry people towards stupendous research in the field.