Chapter 6, Problem 2PSA

Explanation of Solution

Peer to Peer networking:

It is a form of networking where the tasks or workloads are equally distributed or divided among the peers who are equally privileged and have equal potentials in application. So they become the peer to peer network of nodes. In this, peers become both the suppliers and consumers of resources.

Few Peer to Peer applications are:

Tradepal:

Tradepal was first introduced into the market in 2011 for the sake of real-time marketplace that brings convenience in trade and exchange with people in and around communities. This company focuses on the technology that lets like-minded people to discover, share, and trade the items which can be done by building a proprietary interest graph.

FAROO:

It is a universal web search engine which is based on peer to peer technology. In this application, the search data is stored on user’s computers with the use of distributed crawler. Whenever a user visits a website, the search data is automatically indexed and distributed to the network...