Tapestry (Dht) (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Tapestry is a distributed hash table which provides a decentralized object location, routing, and multicasting infrastructure for distributed applications. It is composed of a peer-to-peer overlay network offering efficient, scalable, self-repairing, location-aware routing to nearby resources. The first generation of peer-to-peer applications, including Napster, Gnutella, had restricting limitations such as a central directory for Napster and scoped broadcast queries for Gnutella limiting scalability. To address these problems a second generation of P2P applications were developed including Tapestry, Chord, Pastry, and CAN.