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In the last few years, an increasing number of massively distributed systems with millions of participants has emerged within very short time frames. Applications, such as instant messaging, file-sharing, and content distribution have attracted countless numbers of users. For example, Skype gained more than 2.5 millions of users within twelve months, and more than 50% of Internet traffic is originated by BitTorrent. These very large and still rapidly growing systems attest to a new era for the design and deployment of distributed systems [52]. In particular, they reflect what the major challenges are today for designing and implementing distributed systems: scalability, flexibility, and instant deployment.
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Wehrle, K., Götz, S., Rieche, S. (2005). 7. Distributed Hash Tables. In: Steinmetz, R., Wehrle, K. (eds) Peer-to-Peer Systems and Applications. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3485. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11530657_7
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