June 2002
Intermediate to advanced
464 pages
12h 43m
English
| Figure | Caption |
|---|---|
| 1.1 | P2P interpreted as “person-to-person”. Person A in a room full of people wishes to communicate with B. A therefore locates and approaches B and establishes a direct connection. |
| 1.2 | Basic p2p connectivity implies each node can connect directly to any other. The number of possible connections increases rapidly with the number of nodes. |
| 1.3 | In practical networks, direct p2p connectivity is usually consigned to an abstract routing layer, so that the physical connections (solid arrows) can be made much simpler and tractable. |
| 1.4 | Comparing infrastructure, telephony and Internet, with respect to how representational naming is used to address a given end-point. |
| 1.5 | Simple comparison of a true peer network (as in early Internet) ... |
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