Emerging Social Networks in Peer-to-Peer Systems

The objective of this project is to simulate a Peer-to-Peer type of environment with the JADE multi-agent system platform to investigate the use of social networks to optimize the speed of search and to improve quality of service in the Peer-to-Peer environment. Our project uses the Gnutella protocol as a starting point. The Gnutella protocol broadcasts messages for searching files. This message passing generates much traffic in the network. This degrades the quality of service. We propose a model where each peer has a “ friends list” , for each category of interest. Once peers generate their “ friends list” , they use these lists for searching files in the network. The model has been implemented and some initial experiments have been performed.

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