Peer-to-Peer networks have provided success applications for sharing resource in recent years. Base on the infrastructure of communications technology, started from sharing computing resources, such as bandwidth, storage and processing power, sharing physical sources has become the new trend in peer to peer applications. This course is about advanced network applications and associate networking technologies. It is designed to help you integrate your knowledge of networking and computing to analyse and design effective platforms for network based advanced applications. Topics covered include fundamentals of computing and networking, peer to peer computing and associate applications. You will develop your critical thinking skills in this course to the point where you are able to systematically analyse peer to peer to computing issues at a high level of theoretical abstraction and at the same time be able to apply this knowledge to real life peer to peer computing system design.