Design and Implementation Aspects of a novel Java P2P Simulator with GUI

TL;DR

This paper presents a scalable Java-based P2P simulator with a user-friendly GUI, enabling researchers to easily construct, evaluate, and analyze large peer-to-peer networks and protocols with customizable parameters.

Contribution

The paper introduces a novel Java P2P simulator featuring an intuitive GUI and enhanced scalability, supporting flexible configuration and detailed statistical analysis for protocol evaluation.

Findings

Supports large-scale P2P network simulation

Provides detailed statistical output

Allows easy configuration with minimal code changes

Abstract

Peer-to-peer networks consist of thousands or millions of nodes that might join and leave arbitrarily. The evaluation of new protocols in real environments is many times practically impossible, especially at design and testing stages. The purpose of this paper is to describe the implementation aspects of a new Java based P2P simulator that has been developed to support scalability in the evaluation of such P2P dynamic environments. Evolving the functionality presented by previous solutions, we provide a friendly graphical user interface through which the high-level theoretic researcher/designer of a P2P system can easily construct an overlay with the desirable number of nodes and evaluate its operations using a number of key distributions. Furthermore, the simulator has built-in ability to produce statistics about the distributed structure. Emphasis was given to the parametrical configuration of the simulator. As a result the developed tool can be utilized in the simulation and evaluation procedures of a variety of different protocols, with only few changes in the Java code.