PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK SIMULATION

Nyik San Ting, Ralph Deters

2004

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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San Ting N. and Deters R. (2004). PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK SIMULATION . In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-00-7, pages 84-91. DOI: 10.5220/0002624800840091


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis04,
author={Nyik San Ting and Ralph Deters},
title={PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK SIMULATION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,},
year={2004},
pages={84-91},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002624800840091},
isbn={972-8865-00-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,
TI - PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK SIMULATION
SN - 972-8865-00-7
AU - San Ting N.
AU - Deters R.
PY - 2004
SP - 84
EP - 91
DO - 10.5220/0002624800840091