Topics in Database Systems: Data Management in Peer-to-Peer Systems

Instructor: Evaggelia Pitoura

The course will cover issues related to data management in peer-to-peer systems. This includes:

Take a look at the Final Surveys

Grading Policy: Assignments (x%) Survey Article (x%) Presentations (x%)


Tentative Schedule

22 Feb    Introduction  
1 Mar    Structured p2p I  
8 Mar    Structured p2p II  
22 Mar    Unstructured p2p  
29 Mar    Replication I  
12 Apr    Content Clustering  
19 Apr    Content Clustering II  
17 May    Replication II  
? May    Gossip-based Dissemination  
24 May    Query Processing I  
31 May    Query Processing II  


Course Material


Final Survey Articles by the students attending the course


Surveys on P2P

Tutorials on p2p

  • Interesting Readings

  • Database Resources

  • Assignments