Multimedia Security Paradigms

Book excerpt: Welcome to the first edition of “Multimedia Security Paradigms: A Peer-to-peer network perspective”, since the publication of our research manuscripts which have been adopted into various conventional studies and also obtained appreciation from many research communities which has overwhelmed us with positive response. This edition of the book attempts collaborating the overall research contribution and also present in the form of a book edition which has been obtained from the entire prior work carried out till date. The book basically discusses about the conventional client-server architecture and its drawbacks in various commercialized applications currently being practised in internetworking domain. Further, the book emphasizes on introducing peer-to-peer (p2p) and its design aspects which plays a vital role in transferring files with massive size.