Peer-to-peer (disambiguation)
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Peer-to-peer may refer to:
  • Peer-to-peer
    Peer-to-peer
    Peer-to-peer computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads among peers. Peers are equally privileged, equipotent participants in the application...

    , a distributed computing architecture
    • Anonymous P2P
      Anonymous P2P
      An anonymous P2P communication system is a peer-to-peer distributed application in which the nodes or participants are anonymous or pseudonymous...

       systems in which participants remain anonymous
    • Chord (peer-to-peer); the peer-to-peer technology and project developed at MIT
    • IBM Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking
    • Peer-to-peer attacks in Denial-of-service attack
    • Peer-to-peer file sharing
      Peer-to-peer file sharing
      P2P or Peer-to-peer file sharing allows users to download files such as music, movies, and games using a P2P software client that searches for other connected computers. The "peers" are computer systems connected to each other through internet. Thus, the only requirements for a computer to join...

    • Peer-to-peer video sharing
      Peer-to-peer video sharing
      Peer-to-peer video sharing is a basic service on top of the IP Multimedia Subsystem .Early proprietary implementations might also run a simple SIP infrastructure, too.The GSM Association calls it "Video Share"...

    • P2P-Network, the IRC
      Internet Relay Chat
      Internet Relay Chat is a protocol for real-time Internet text messaging or synchronous conferencing. It is mainly designed for group communication in discussion forums, called channels, but also allows one-to-one communication via private message as well as chat and data transfer, including file...

       instant messaging multi-purpose communication network
    • P2P-Next, the European Union Framework 7 peer-to-peer digital media network
    • Peer-to-Peer Protocol (P2PP)
      Peer-to-Peer Protocol (P2PP)
      Peer-to-Peer Protocol is an Application-layer protocol that can be used to form and maintain an overlay among participant nodes. It provides mechanisms for nodes to join, leave, publish, or search for a resource-object in the overlay. It maintains information about nodes in a routing table...

    • Peer to Peer Remote Copy
      Peer to Peer Remote Copy
      Peer to Peer Remote Copy or PPRC is a protocol to replicate a storage volume to another control unit in a remote site. Synchronous PPRC causes each write to the primary volume to be performed to the secondary as well, and the I/O is only considered complete when update to both primary and secondary...

      , an IBM technology for distributed storage replication
    • Peer-to-peer SIP a Voice over Internet Protocol communications architecture
    • Peer-to-peer wiki
    • Private peer-to-peer
    • Short message peer-to-peer protocol
      Short message peer-to-peer protocol
      The Short Message Peer-to-Peer protocol is a telecommunications industry protocol for exchanging SMS messages between SMS peer entities such as short message service centers and/or External Short Messaging Entities. It is often used to allow third parties The Short Message Peer-to-Peer (SMPP)...

    • Turtle peer-to-peer network; see Turtle F2F
      Turtle F2F
      Turtle is a free anonymous peer-to-peer network project being developed at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, involving professor Andrew Tanenbaum. Like other anonymous P2P software, it allows users to share files and otherwise communicate without fear of legal sanctions or censorship...


  • A specific relational dynamic which emerges through social peer-to-peer processes. It is based on the assumed equipotency of its participants to achieve a common good.
    • Peer-to-peer banking, an online system that allows members to complete financial transactions with one another
    • Peer-to-peer lending
    • Peer-to-peer renting
      Peer-to-peer renting
      Peer-to-peer renting refers to the process of an individual renting an owned good, service, or property to another individual. It is also referred to as Person-to-Person rental, P2P renting, Collaborative Consumption, and Product Service System...

      • Peer-to-peer car rental
        Peer-to-peer car rental
        Peer-to-peer car rental is the process whereby an existing car owner makes their vehicle available for use to other drivers in their area in exchange for payment...

    • Peer-to-peer social networks in Social software
    • Peer-to-peer support
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