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What is P2P Network

Handbook of Research on Artificial Immune Systems and Natural Computing: Applying Complex Adaptive Technologies
In P2P network, every node (peer) of the system acts as both client and server and provides part of the overall resources/information available from the system. In a pure P2P system, no central coordination or central database exists and no peer has a global view of the system. Participating peers are autonomous and self-organize the system’s structure, i.e., global behavior emerges from local interactions. P2P technologies have many applications, such as file sharing and exchanging, distributed computing, collaborative system, P2P computing, and enterprise applications.
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Immune Based Bio-Network Architecture and its Simulation Platform for Future Internet
Yong-Sheng Ding (Ministry of Education, China), Xiang-Feng Zhang (Ministry of Education, China & Shanghai Dianji University, China), and Li-Hong Ren (Ministry of Education, China)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-310-4.ch010
Abstract
Future Internet should be capable of extensibility, survivability, mobility, and adaptability to the changes of different users and network environments, so it is necessary to optimize the current Internet architecture and its applications. Inspired by the resemble features between the immune systems and future Internet, the authors introduce some key principles and mechanisms of the immune systems to design a bio-network architecture to address the challenges of future Internet. In the bio-network architecture, network resources are represented by various bioentities, while complex services and application can be emerged from the interactions among bio-entities. Also, they develop a bio-network simulation platform which has the capability of service emergence, evolution, and so forth. The simulation platform can be used to simulate some complex services and applications for Internet or distributed network. The simulators with different functions can be embedded in the simulation platform. As a demonstration, this chapter provides two immune network computation models to generate the emergent services through computer simulation experiments on the platform. The experimental results show that the bio-entities on the platform provide quickly services to the users’ requests with short response time. The interactions among bio-entities maintain the load balance of the bio-network and make the resources be utilized reasonably. With the advantages of adaptability, extensibility, and survivability, the bio-network architecture provides a novel way to design new intelligent Internet information services and applications.
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