A Flexible P2p Publish/subscribe Framework

Nowadays, many structured P2P algorithms have been proposed frequently. Consequently, the P2P application developers need to learn different P2P API semantics. Developers will take additional efforts if they want to replace the underlying P2P networks of their P2P applications with other ones. Moreover, it is difficult for the developers to evaluate the performance of an application based on a particular underneath P2P APIs. In this research, a novel P2P framework is proposed to assist in developing P2P applications with replaceable structured P2P protocol and P2P pub/sub algorithm. We construct structured P2P functional modules, including network communication components, P2P topology maintenance and routing, network bootstrapping, as well as pluggable pub/sub services in our system. In contrast to other P2P libraries and platforms, our framework provides a more flexible and extensible development platform for establishing P2P systems.