An Architecture for Managing Internet of Things based on Cognitive Peer-to-peer Networks

Peer-to-peer systems are well-known patterns of distributed systems which created several revelations in designing ultra-scalable systems. Recently, these types of systems are evolved into cognitive peer-to-peer networks. Because of the distributed nature of Internet of Things (IoT), peer-to-peer systems such as blockchain can be used to design management mechanisms in IoT. Therefore, we need an architecture which facilitates the utilization of peer-to-peer systems in IoT based systems. To the best of our knowledge, there is no general architecture based on cognitive peer-to-peer networks. Therefore, in this paper, we propose an architecture for managing IoT based on cognitive peer-to-peer networks. In order to study the potential of the proposed architecture, we suggest an adaptive search mechanism and also a topology management algorithm utilizing the proposed architecture. The results show the efficiency of the suggested algorithms. The proposed architecture may facilitate a new evolution from peer-to-peer systems to thing-to-thing systems.