… of the considered overlays handles the adverse characteristics of pervasive environments
… Construction and maintenance of the P-Grid overlay relies on nodes’ interactions. Initially, …

… Overlay networks depend on the cooperation of the participants, ie, they have to trust that the
peers they interact … over the performance characteristics of the overlay network, for example…

… These P2P overlay networks attempt to provide a long list of features, such as: selection of
… , where each peer routes client requests and interacts with local instances of one or more …

… feature of P2P is that peers do not need to directly interact with the underlying physical
network… mismatch between the P2P overlay networks and the physical network. Our studies, …

… and openness of a P2P overlay network. Hence, some … request obtained through each
interaction with the acquaintance peer pj … through P2P interactions in a P2P overlay network. Each …

… and quantitative analysis of its functionality and performance. … interact with social networking
web-sites [1, 7]. Social … Furthermore, P2P overlay networking is key to enable a system …

… In this paper, we present a hierarchical P2P overlay network … However, as a peer interacts
with other peers, its local routing … The comparison of main features of these P2P overlays …

… The problem of having a scalable P2P overlay network with … will be random interactions
between nodes of the overlay. In the … of the hashing function. This is apart from P-Grid, where the …

… After having been connected successfully, servents send messages to interact with each other.
… An important feature of the Gnutella p2p filesharing service is that peers may join or leave …

… , in the sense that the network itself has self-management features, while other management
… Using a P2P overlay network, a wide area service discovery mechanism called a service …