Collaborative Web Hosting Challenges and Research Directions /

• Main Authors: Ahmed, Reaz (Author), Boutaba , Raouf (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Computer Science,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer communication systems.; Multimedia information systems.; Electrical engineering.; Computer Science.; Computer Communication Networks.; Multimedia Information Systems.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Communications Engineering, Networks.

This brief presents a peer-to-peer (P2P) web-hosting infrastructure (named pWeb) that can transform networked, home-entertainment devices into lightweight collaborating Web servers for persistently storing and serving multimedia and web content. The issues addressed include ensuring content availabi...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Plexus: Routing and Indexing
• Naming
• Collaborative Web Search
• Availability
• Conclusion.