Peer to Peer Networks Management Survey

TL;DR

This survey reviews peer-to-peer network management, focusing on resource discovery, classification, applications, platforms, simulators, and security challenges in dynamic environments like mobile networks.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of P2P management techniques, highlighting current classifications, applications, and security issues, and discusses tools for simulation and analysis.

Findings

Resource discovery remains a key challenge in P2P networks.

Security concerns are critical in dynamic P2P environments.

Various platforms and simulators support P2P network research.

Abstract

Peer-to-Peer systems are based on the concept of resources localization and mutualisation in dynamic context. In specific environment such as mobile networks, characterized by high variability and dynamicity of network conditions and performances, where nodes can join and leave the network dynamically, resources reliability and availability constitute a critical issue. The resource discovery problem arises in the context of peer to peer (P2P) networks, where at any point of time a peer may be placed at or removed from any location over a general purpose network. Locating a resource or service efficiently is one of the most important issues related to peer-to-peer networks. The objective of a search mechanism is to successfully locate resources while incurring low overhead and low delay. This paper presents a survey on P2P networks management: classification, applications, platforms, simulators and security.