A Pheromone-Based Coordination Mechanism Applied in P2P

Abstract

In this paper, we discuss the principle of synthetic pheromones, which we view as a high level coordination mechanism suitable for highly scalable, open and self-organized systems, of which peer to peer systems are an example. We present a stable abstraction for the application of synthetic pheromones, building on an existing coordination mechanism, objectspaces. The coordination principle is evaluated on the problem of search in a file-sharing P2P system