Abstract—In a peer to peer system, each entity needs some services from other entities in the network, and is capable of providing services to other entities in the network. For the system to work each entity has to contribute at least as much as it is receiving. But for this to happen, since the services requested and offered are different across entities, the relative values of each service have to be determined. The relative value of a resource must depend on how much of it is demanded and how much of it is available on the network. A separation of concerns approach in such systems will have to be devised keeping in mind the fact that any concern that the node sets apart as the service providing node’s will have to be handled by it when it is acting as the …show more content…
1) Searching the network: The low average path length will make searches very fast, while the small diameter of the graph will make flooding requests with a small TTL(Time To Live) an effective search technique. Also resource names not being uniform can be managed by intermediate nodes which know both names. But care has to be taken that all nodes in the boundary between the two regions with different names have to remember both names. Then, before forwarding, old names are replaced with new names. The nodes can have a small list of such names which can be analyzed every time a request is received. 2) Relative resource values: Each resource is given a default value initially, which is incremented every time it is requested and decremented every time a node replies, indicating the resource’s availability. The node will keep track of relative values of resources it possesses and also resources the requests for which it receives. This module provides data required