Galaxia: A Semi-decentralized System for Implementing Secure-Group P2P Networks

Author

Muralidharan, Saurav ; Koroth, Sajin ; Anto, Nevil ; Pandarachalil, Rafeeque

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Gov. Coll. of Eng., Kannur, Kannur, India

fYear

2009

fDate

27-29 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

289

Lastpage

294

Abstract

Private P2P networks are peer-to-peer (P2P) networks that only allow some mutually trusted computers to share resources. In this paper, we consider a special type of Private P2P system - the Secure-group P2P (SGP) system. SGP systems form an overlay network consisting of private groups which allow only members belonging to the same group to see and share resources. We introduce Galaxia: a semi-decentralized system that creates and manages SGP networks. We discuss the rationale behind adopting a semi-decentralized approach, discuss various issues that need to be resolved when dealing with SGP networks and provide the details of the Galaxia architecture.

Keywords

peer-to-peer computing; Galaxia system; peer-to-peer networks; private P2P network; secure-group P2P networks; semi-decentralized approach; Computer networks; Computer science; Cryptography; Databases; Educational institutions; Government; Law; Legal factors; Peer to peer computing; Public key; peer-to-peer; private-p2p; secure group p2p; semi-decentralized;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Networks and Communications, 2009. NETCOM '09. First International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chennai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5364-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3924-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NetCoM.2009.41

Filename

5383990