The course in Massively Distributed Systems I: Peer-to-peer makes me able to appreciate the power of P2P networking in providing a scalable censorship-resistant robust network as well as the basic know-how to engineer one. The course is very enlightening for me who had only one course in Computer Networking and didn't realize how limited a server is.

The given lecture materials are here: http://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B66kEP2FWgm_MWMwODYyNjQtMTNjNi00YTc3LTkx...

I archive my lecture notes here: http://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B66kEP2FWgm_NmEyMzU2M2QtM2ExOC00NTA4LWE4...

The former text of this blog article that I replace with this final text is also saved within the lecture notes archive.

The course uses the following research papers for the topics starting from DHT to i3 (other papers can just be googled by entering a particular topic of interest like ePOST):

• Ion Stoica - Chord: A Scalable Peer-To-Peer Lookup Service For Internet Applications
• Antony Rowstron And Peter Druschel - Pastry: Scalable, Decentralized Object Location And Routing For Large-Scale Peer-To-Peer Systems
• S. Ratnasamy - A Scalable Content-Addressable Network
• Gummadi - The Impact of DHT Routing Geometry on Resilience and Proximity
• Symphony: Distributed Hashing In A Small World
• Kademlia: A Peer-to-peer Information System Based on the XOR Metric
• D. Malkhi, M. Naor, D. Ratajczak - Viceroy: a Scalable and Dynamic Emulation of the Butterfly
• M. Piatek - Do Incentives Build Robustness In BitTorrent?
• Ion Stoica - Internet Indirection Infrastructure (i3)
• Jayanthkumar Kannan - Supporting Legacy Applications over i3
• OCALA: An Architecture for Supporting Legacy Applications over Overlays