Abécédaire des architectures distribuées, a book edited by Cécile Méadel and Francesca Musiani

A Primer on Distributed Architectures

What is meant by distributed network architecture? Trivially it is called peer-to-peer. From a technical standpoint, it evokes an organization made of multiple calculation units, resources sharing, the absence of unique point, flexibility… in short, the principles underlying the Internet model. Although the Web has now drifted away from this model, the P2P modalities inspire many applications, from TOR to Bitcoin. These decentralized models, the basic principle of which is cooperation, reconfigure value chain, users’ rights, power of service providers, the distribution of skills and resources. Thus they offer a powerful alternative to the current centralization of the Web.

This book provides an agile and clear tool for understanding distributed architectures. Presented in the form of an alphabet primer, it is a collection of analyses of issues and of monographs informed by sociology, legal sciences and economics.

This book is the result of a research program funded by the ANR, and is co-authored by researchers from the Interdisciplinary Institute for Innovation (i3) (Mines ParisTech, Télécom ParisTech) and CNRS: Maya Bacache, Danièle Bourcier, Julia Cagé, Primavera De Filippi, Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay, Annie Gentès, François Huguet, Camille Jutant, Alexandre Mallard, Cécile Méadel, Francesca Musiani.

2015 – Presses des Mines

Language: French