A novel grid-based P2P content management system

Content Management Systems (CMS) determine a valuable means to simplify the creation, maintenance, and distribution of content. However, the state of the art of CMS is still at its infant stage and confronts with many challenges such as security, replica consistency, reliability and scalability. To address the challenges, this paper proposes a novel Grid_based content management system (GCMS) with some Peer-to-Peer (P2P) properties such as scalability, robust, etc., which combines the advantages of client-server model and pure P2P model and avoids their shortcomings. The paper also introduces an approach for providing the strong and efficient access control, which is a key requirement for CMS.