Towards automating overlay network management
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
Social-aware delay tolerant networking for mobile-to-mobile file sharing
International Journal of Communication Systems
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Peer-to-Peer (P2P) is a flexible architecture that let a networkgrow up in an arbitrary way by adding more and more peers providingresources to the whole system. If uncontrolled, however,this growth might lead to stability and reliability problems, due tothe fact that any host might join the network, no matter whetherit may provide guarantees or not. Another problem that might occuris the difficulty to administrate the network due to its possiblyuncontrolled growth and its frequent topological changes. Thispaper focuses on the description of an approach to administration'sautomation based on the systematic use of policies. Thegoal is achieved by means of evaluation of the resources ownedby each host, which addresses the problem of provision od reliableresources too. We believe this is a good solution to both problems.In this paper we will explain how our approach works andthe benefits rising from its use. In order to better test our approachwe developed and tested a working prototype of the system, alsodescribed in this paper.