3TierP2P: A Flexible and Extendible Framework for P2P Application

Peer to peer networks are overlay networks in which all their peers share some resources to participate in a cumulative service. Now, there exist so many applications which use these distributed resources to provide distributed service. However there is no standard for these networks, but there exist a lot of increasing interests in this area. This increasing interest and the lack of standard for these networks were the main motivation of this paper to design and implement a new framework for P2P applications. We considered some goals for our framework; consist of simplicity, flexibility, extendibility and maintainability, to achieve an appropriate model. According to these goals and the main idea of the two famous models called three-tier client-server and sevenlayer OSI model, we proposed a new model for our framework so called 3TierP2P. This model has three tiers in which, each tier consists of some layers.

Keywords:

Peer-to-Peer , P2P framework , Pluggable architecture