P2P networks monitoring based on the social network analysis and the topological potential

Network structure has been used to describe many systems in the real world. Nodes, which represent the units, and edges, which represent the connection of the units constitute the network structure. The monitoring of the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks can also be described by the general network model. In this paper, we provide an algorithm to divide network based on the social network analysis. By calculating the topology potential entropy for each node, we can discover the center nodes which should be monitored emphatically in the P2P networks.