Incentive Driven Node Discovery in a P2P Network Using Mobile Intelligent Agents," (to appear

A peer-to-peer(P2P) network consists of nodes that are capable of sharing resources and services with each other in a decentralized and distributed manner. A node joining a P2P network uses the node discovery protocol to discover other nodes already in the network. A node then uses the resource discovery protocol to distribute and acquire resources from other nodes in the network. Existing algorithms for P2P networks optimize the resource discovery protocol to guarantee rapid and reliable resource sharing. In this paper, we describe an intelligent node discovery protocol using a mobile agent enabled P2P system. Our simulation results show that agent based node discovery techniques in P2P systems can compare to and even out-perform traditional node discovery techniques