Simulation Based Analysis for a Traceable P2P Record Exchange Framework

P2P technologies are getting more and more attention lately. However, unlike the traditional client-server architecture, a P2P network allows all computers to communicate and share resources as equals without central server control. This causes inconsistency in exchanged information and results in lack of trustworthiness. To provide trustful and flexible information exchange facility in P2P networks, we proposed a traceable P2P record exchange framework. In this framework, a peer can exchange structured records with a predefined schema among other peers. The framework supports a tracing facility to query the lineage of the obtained records based on database technologies. A tracing query is described in Datalog and executed as a recursive query among cooperating peers in a P2P network. In this paper, we focus on analyzing and verifying the traceable P2P record exchange framework based on simulation experiments in three different example P2P networks.