Structuring peer-2-peer communities

Abstract

Locating suitable resources within a peer-2-peer (P2P) system is a computationally intensive process, with no guarantee of quality and suitability of the discovered resources. An alternative approach is to categorise peers based on the services they provide, leading to the interaction between peers with common goals to form societies/communities. Organization of peers in different communities is suggested to be useful for efficient resource discovery. We analyse the types of communities that may be useful, and how they may be structured.