=====Teacher: Laura Ricci, Emanuele Carlini =====

Note: This is a temporary page: the course will be managed by the Moodle platform.


You can find all the materials of the course on the Moodle Site: https://elearning.di.unipi.it/course/view.php?id=64

The Moodle Site will contain slides of the lessons, assignments, discussions (forum)


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 ===== Please note the change of the rooms ! =====

===== Timetable===== 
^ Day ^ Hour ^ Room ^
| **Wednesday** | **9.00-11.00** | **L1** |
| **Friday**  | **16.00-18.00**| **B** |
=====New (Tentative) Program of the Course=====

  * **Introduction: ** P2P and Big Data as Complex Networks

  * ** P2P Systems: Content Search and Distribution**
        * Unstructured Overlays:  Flooding, Random Walks
        * Structured Overlays: Distributed Hash Tables (DHT)
             * The Chord DHT: A Markov chain Model of Routing in Chord
        *Case Studies:
             * eMule: the KAD implementation of the Kademlia DHT
             * Bittorrent: a Content Distribution Network, Game based Cooperation
             * Bitcoin: Digital currency. Anonimicity in P2P networks
         * Simulation Environments for P2P Systems:  Peersim
    
   * **Models for P2P and Big Graphs:**
        * Random Graphs and  Small Worlds 
        * Small world navigability: Watts Strogatz and Kleinberg Models 
        * Complex networks navigability: case studies
              * The Darknet Freenet, a Small World Network
              * Big Social Graphs: Geographical Routing

   * **Vertex Centric Approaches:**
       * P2P Asynchronous Models: Epidemic Approaches
             * Gossip Based Algorithms
             * Laboratory: Random Sampling, K-core, 
       * Global Models for Big Graph Computing: the Bulk Synchronous Computing Model    
      
   * **Distributed Supports for Big Graphs Frameworks**
            * Facebook cloud: a DHT in the cloud
            * Google's globally-distributed Database
            * Distributed Supports for BSP models

=====Final Examination=====

Final Project or Written Examination

=====For any information, contact me at:=====
       e-mail: laura.ricci@di.unipi.it/ricci@di.unipi.it
       Skype: lauraemiliaricci
       Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/laura.emilia.ricci (ask me for friendship and send me a message)   
==== Link to the Course of the Previous Year  ====

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