Towards a Generic Model for Peer-to-Peer Systems

Abstract

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) approach is attracting new researchers and developers with its increasing nwnber of the currently developed systems. Researchers try to use the P2P approach and architecture to tackle kinds of problem that require an increased amount of resources or that will take a lot of time for the required computation power. Handling the existing resource consumption problems changed by returning back to P2P model, where interconnected peers over the connected networks and the Internet share their idle resources and services to the other peers across the connected network. Different non-homogeneous systems are developed each time with new networks protocols to provide services and resources to. the network. These systems with their heterogeneous types of services and resources made a gap in the P2P networks where each Peer in one system is isolated from the other peers that are not connected to the same network. The interoperability between the peers is missing since the protocols used to connect to a network are only restricted to this network. Services that are provided in one network cannot be obtained by another peer from another network because of the lack of intercommunication and the lack of a common language or protocol that can describe the shared services or that can provide information about the shared resources.