Abstract:

P2P overlay networks are widely used for distributed network management owing to the effective and efficient way they provide that are not otherwise available. However, most of the designs about P2P overlay construction mainly focus on introducing the P2P approaches, lacking a mechanism for overlay selfmanagement. Furthermore, due to the faith of emphasizing equality among participators, peers are tend to be treated equally in the P2P overlay network, which greatly affects the system’s performance. This paper presents a novel approach to address the issue of automating the P2P overlay management with the consideration of the resource availability of each peer. In the system, each participating peer is responsible for the management of certain network equipments. We utilize a policybased management paradigm for overlay and network reconfiguration. The new approach provides a dynamic and autonomic way to manage the P2P overlay network. The simulation results verify the feasibility and effectiveness of our schema.

Key words: fuzzy logic;P2P overlay network;resource awareness;network management