From the reviews: "The book offers an interesting overview of problems concerning peer-to-peer technology, with their relation to the fields of networking and distributed systems. ... The book is suitable for advanced students and researchers interested in P2P systems development, as it consists of theorems relevant to P2P solutions and many case studies." (Jozef Wozniak, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1263, 2013)
The field of structured P2P systems has seen fast growth upon the introduction of Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) in the early 2000s. Part I presents the state-of-the-art of structured P2P systems, popular DHT topologies and protocols, and the design challenges for efficient P2P network topology organization, routing, scalability, and security.