Modelling P2P data networks under complex system theory

  • Authors:
  • Cyrus Shahabi;Farnoush Banaei-Kashani

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science Department, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-0781, USA.;Computer Science Department, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-0781, USA

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

A Peer-to-peer Data Network (PDN) is an open and evolving society of peer nodes that assemble into a network to share their data. We argue that with a self-organising, dynamic, and large-scale architecture, instead of traditional distributed computing systems, PDNs should be classified with natural complex systems (such as social networks). The 'complex system theory' is a meta-theory that provides a common modelling framework to study such complex systems under one umbrella. In this paper, for the first time we introduce and apply the complex system theory as a modelling framework to study PDNs.