TY - GEN
T1 - A middleware approach for SAINT (secure, automatic, interoperable, and transparent) peer-to-peer content services
AU - Park, Joon S.
AU - Hwang, Junseok
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - Expanded use of the Internet and technological advances are eliciting changes in how individuals manage and share their contents. The Internet has been primarily a client-server-based system, where it is challenging to keep contents up-to-date and consistent among all of the devices. Furthermore, the client-server model has service limitations in heterogeneous computing environments. However, a new peer-to-peer (P2P) model has emerged. In this P2P workplace, each participant (peer) acts as both client and content provider. Compared with services performed by the client-server model, P2P-based content management services have several advantages. In P2P environments, users can manage heterogeneous information resources residing in various platforms perhaps in different policy environments. A P2P-based content management model can provide higher resource availability due to the distributed nature of P2P computing. However, wide-scale application of P2P computing is constrained by limitations associated with the especially sophisticated control mechanisms needed between peers: most current P2P technologies simply focus on sharing services rather than on controls between the peers. In this paper, we introduce a middleware approach to support the underlying mechanisms, providing secure, automatic, interoperable, and transparent (SAINT) services for P2P content management. The underlying mechanisms are based on machine-understandable metadata. Our middleware approach using metadata facilitates the SAINT content management services with rich metadata expression in P2P computing environments. The broad dissemination of our approach allows the application of P2P technology to more reliable and efficient content services within organization or inter-organizations.
AB - Expanded use of the Internet and technological advances are eliciting changes in how individuals manage and share their contents. The Internet has been primarily a client-server-based system, where it is challenging to keep contents up-to-date and consistent among all of the devices. Furthermore, the client-server model has service limitations in heterogeneous computing environments. However, a new peer-to-peer (P2P) model has emerged. In this P2P workplace, each participant (peer) acts as both client and content provider. Compared with services performed by the client-server model, P2P-based content management services have several advantages. In P2P environments, users can manage heterogeneous information resources residing in various platforms perhaps in different policy environments. A P2P-based content management model can provide higher resource availability due to the distributed nature of P2P computing. However, wide-scale application of P2P computing is constrained by limitations associated with the especially sophisticated control mechanisms needed between peers: most current P2P technologies simply focus on sharing services rather than on controls between the peers. In this paper, we introduce a middleware approach to support the underlying mechanisms, providing secure, automatic, interoperable, and transparent (SAINT) services for P2P content management. The underlying mechanisms are based on machine-understandable metadata. Our middleware approach using metadata facilitates the SAINT content management services with rich metadata expression in P2P computing environments. The broad dissemination of our approach allows the application of P2P technology to more reliable and efficient content services within organization or inter-organizations.
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U2 - 10.1109/ISCC.2003.1214253
DO - 10.1109/ISCC.2003.1214253
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84883866129
SN - 076951961X
SN - 9780769519616
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications
SP - 1047
EP - 1052
BT - Proceedings - 8th IEEE International Symposium on Computers and Communication, ISCC 2003
T2 - 8th IEEE International Symposium on Computers and Communication, ISCC 2003
Y2 - 30 June 2003 through 3 July 2003
ER -