Future of Peer-To-Peer Technology with the Rise of Cloud Computing
Phillip Kisembe, Wilson Jeberson · International Journal of Peer to Peer Networks · 2017
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networking emerged as a disruptive business model displacing the server based networks within a point in time.P2P technologies are on the edge of becoming all-purpose in developing several applications for social networking.In the past seventeen years, research on P2P computing and systems has received enormous amount of attention in the areas of academia and the industry.P2P rose to triumphant profit-making systems in the internet.It represents the best incarnation of the end to end argument, the frequently disputed design philosophies that guided the design of the internet.The doubting factor then is why is research on P2P computing now fading from the spotlight and suffering a nose dive fall as dramatic as its rise to its popularity.This paper is going to capture a quick look at past results in peer-to-peer computing with focus on understanding what led to its rise, what contributed to its commercial success and what has led to its lack of interest.The insight of this paper introduces cloud computing as a paradigm to peer-to-peer computing.