Dissemination and delivery of rapidly changing information to large user communities remains a challenge on the Web. Consequently, we need techniques to disseminate such data as efficiently as possible. To this end, researchers are focusing on new approaches to building efficient, resilient, and scalable content-distribution networks.
Index Terms:
information technology and systems, information storage, information retrieval, information filtering, distributed systems, publish-subscribe, peer-to-peer, distributed hash tables, DHT, data dissemination
Citation:
Krithi Ramamritham, Prashant Shenoy, "Guest Editors' Introduction: Dynamic Information Dissemination," IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 14-15, July/Aug. 2007, doi:10.1109/MIC.2007.85