Electronic Proceedings for the 1st International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS '02)

7-8 March 2002 - MIT Faculty Club, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Proceedings of all IPTPS workshops can be found via the main site of the International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS).

The goal of the workshop was to examine peer-to-peer technologies, applications and systems, and also to identify key research issues and challenges that lie ahead.  In the context of this workshop, peer-to-peer systems were characterized as being decentralized, self-organizing distributed systems, in which all or most communication is symmetric.  Topics of interest include, but were not limited to:

• novel peer-to-peer applications and systems
• peer-to-peer infrastructure
• security in peer-to-peer systems
• anonymity and anti-censorship
• performance of peer-to-peer systems
• workload characterization for peer-to-peer systems

The program of the workshop was a combination of invited review talks, presentations of position papers, and discussions. To ensure a productive workshop environment, attendance was limited to about 50 participants who were active in the field.  Each potential participant submitted a position paper of 5 pages or less that exposes a new problem, advocates a specific solution, or reports on actual experience. We received 99 submissions, and participants were invited based on the originality, technical merit and topical relevance of their submissions, as well as the likelihood that the ideas expressed in their submissions would lead to insightful technical discussions at the workshop.

We will be producing minutes of the workshop which will be available in a few weeks.