Chord: A scalable peer-to-peer lookup service for internet applications
Proceedings of the 2001 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
A scalable content-addressable network
Proceedings of the 2001 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Pastry: Scalable, Decentralized Object Location, and Routing for Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Systems
Middleware '01 Proceedings of the IFIP/ACM International Conference on Distributed Systems Platforms Heidelberg
Super-peer-based routing and clustering strategies for RDF-based peer-to-peer networks
WWW '03 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on World Wide Web
Improving Search in Peer-to-Peer Networks
ICDCS '02 Proceedings of the 22 nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'02)
Tapestry: An Infrastructure for Fault-tolerant Wide-area Location and
Tapestry: An Infrastructure for Fault-tolerant Wide-area Location and
A Robust Protocol for Building Superpeer Overlay Topologies
P2P '04 Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing
Searching for Collaborators in Agent Networks
WI-IATW '07 Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Workshops
AIS-ADM'07 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Autonomous intelligent systems: agents and data mining
Learning to locate trading partners in agent networks
ALA'09 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Adaptive and Learning Agents
Self-Organized Formation and Evolution of Peer-to-Peer Networks
INFORMS Journal on Computing
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Super-peer networks have been proposed to address the issue of search latency and scalability in traditional peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. In a super-peer network, instead of having a fully distributed systems of peer nodes with similar or comparable capabilities, some nodes that possess considerable computing power and resources are designated as super-peers. Each super-peer acts as a server for multiple client peers under it. This hierarchical structure of a super-peer network improves the performance of a super-peer network over traditional P2P networks by handling most search queries between the few super-peer nodes, thereby reducing overall network traffic and improving search latency. In this paper, we address the problem of mutual selection by super-peers and client peers. In particular, we evaluate alternative decision functions used by super-peers to allow new client peers to join the cluster of clients under it. We experiment with peers with known resources and demands. By formally representing and reasoning with capability and query distributions, we develop peer-selection functions that either promote concentration or diversification of capabilities within a cluster. We evaluate the effectiveness of these different selection functions for different environments where peer capabilities are aligned or are independent of their queries. We offer insight and analysis on the effects on inter and intra-peer bandwidth consumption which will allow a super-peer to adopt appropriate peer-selection functions given their expectations about the environment.