P2PeL: A Peer-to-Peer Computing Framework for eLearning

Presented by: Nauman Shah With the recent popularity of peer-to-peer computing, research is underway to utilize the power of this paradigm for different applications. Systems like Napster, Gnutella, FreeNet and Seti@Home have received tremendous successes, and each of them posses thousands of'clients sharing millions of files. Although having differences in their underlying architectures, the basic theme of all theses systems is to provide a distributed association of anonymous clients sharing their resources for mutual benefit. Currently the usage of peer-to-peer architecture is limited to file sharing and processing power sharing for entertainment and scientific purposes. We propose P2PeL - a scalable, distributed, hierarchical peer-to-peer computing framework for eLeaming that utilizes the power of a cutting edge technology for a novel cause. '_

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