Authors:
Nyik San Ting
and
Ralph Deters
Affiliation:
University of Sasjatchewan, Canada
Keyword(s):
Peer-to-Peer Networks, Simulation
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Object Orientation in Internet and Distributed Computing
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
Abstract:
Peer-to-Peer (p2p) networks are the latest addition to the already large distributed systems family. With a strong emphasis on self-organization, decentralization and autonomy of the participating nodes, p2p-networks tend to be more scalable, robust and adaptive than other forms of distributed systems. The much-publicized success of
p2p-networks for file-sharing and cycle-sharing has resulted in an increased awareness and interest into the p2p protocols and applications. However, p2p-networks are difficult to study due to their size and the complex interdependencies between users, application, protocol and network. This paper has two aims. First, to provide a review of existing p2p-network simulators and to make a case for our own simulator named 3LS (3-Level-Simulator). Second, it presents our current view that there is a need for more realistic/complex models in p2p-network simulation since ignoring the underlying network, topology and/or the behaviour of applications can result
in misleading simulation results.
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