Adaptive Resource Location in a Peer-to-Peer Network

摘要

Flooding broadcast networks have proven themselves capable of meeting most major criteria for successful peer-to-peer networks, but they have one major shortcoming: an inefficient resource discovery mechanism that has difficulty scaling. We develop a 'meta-protocol' for flooding broadcast networks that is expressive enough to describe a range of existing and deployed flooding broadcast network protocols. We then describe how to apply genetic programming to obtain specific network protocols from this meta-protocol that are optimized for various specific network scenarios.