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In the hope of stimulating discussion, we present a heuristic decision tree that designers can use to judge how suitable a P2P solution might be for a particular problem. It is based on characteristics of a wide range of P2P systems from the literature, both proposed and deployed. These include budget, resource relevance, trust, rate of system change, and criticality.
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Roussopoulos, M., Baker, M., Rosenthal, D.S.H., Giuli, T.J., Maniatis, P., Mogul, J. (2005). 2 P2P or Not 2 P2P?. In: Voelker, G.M., Shenker, S. (eds) Peer-to-Peer Systems III. IPTPS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3279. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30183-7_4
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