Self-Organization of Autonomous Peers with Human Strategies

Abstract

Similarly to social networks where people are connected by their social relationships, two autonomous peer nodes can be connected in unstructured peer-to-peer (P2P) networks if users in those nodes are interested in each other's data. The similarity between P2P networks and social networks, where peer nodes are people and connections are relationships, leads us to believe that human strategies in social networks are useful for improving the performance of resource discovery by self-organising autonomous peers on unstructured P2P networks. In this paper, we present an efficient social-like peer-to-peer (ESLP) model for resource discovery by mimicking different human behaviours in social networks.