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Summary: Karl Aberer
and Magdalena Punceva
Swiss Federal Institute ofTechnology
Manfred Hauswirth
and Roman Schmidt
Technical University ofVienna
Improving Data
Access in P2P Systems
The P-Grid approach enables distributed search and replication.
Gridella, a P2P system based on P-Grid, improves on Gnutella's
search performance while reducing bandwidth requirements.
T
he limitations of client-server-
based systems become evident in
an Internet-scale distributed envi-
ronment. Resources are concentrated on
a small number of nodes, which must
apply sophisticated load-balancing and
fault-tolerance algorithms to provide
continuous and reliable access. Addition-
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