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The BestPeer network consists of peers owned by organizations,
facilitated by a bootstrap server, which provides the
functionality for performance monitoring, database configuration,
and authenticating. The network can be accessed by both external users, which are outside the system, and internal
users, which are in participant organizations, to issue queries.
- The Bootstrap server is the entry point of the whole network,
which is managed by the service provider. The server stores
the configurable global schema of the corporate network and
acts as a Certificate Authentication (CA) center for certifying the
identities of peers and users in the system.
- Peers are essentially the servers which run BestPeer software
and are owned by participant organizations. They provide
facilities to extract and synchronize data with production systems
e.g. ERP systems of participants and publish those data
to the network for querying. They also provide interfaces for
the local administrator to specify the access control policy and
user management strategy.
- In BestPeer, peers are organized
on a balanced binary tree structured P2P overlay protocol
called BATON.
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