<P> DHTs characteristically emphasize the following properties: </P> <Ul> <Li> Autonomy and decentralization: the nodes collectively form the system without any central coordination . </Li> <Li> Fault tolerance: the system should be reliable (in some sense) even with nodes continuously joining, leaving, and failing . </Li> <Li> Scalability: the system should function efficiently even with thousands or millions of nodes . </Li> </Ul> <Li> Autonomy and decentralization: the nodes collectively form the system without any central coordination . </Li> <Li> Fault tolerance: the system should be reliable (in some sense) even with nodes continuously joining, leaving, and failing . </Li>

What is a distributed hash table (dht) and how is it used in p2p networks