Towards Small World for Collaborative Enterprises in Grid

Grid is becoming a challenging environment supporting both old and new services for cooperative applications, which promote individual enterprises engaged in a collaborative community. This cooperation pressure results in an increased focus on the interconnection of member enterprises within virtual organization that necessitates the new highly scalable networking technology. Accordingly, this paper proposes the peer-to-peer overlay network based small world community construct for collaborative enterprises through randomly exchanging neighbours in an initially fixed regular graph. We discuss the community maintenance algorithm such as member joining and leaving, and give related complexity analysis. We also show this small world community network is high clustering, short diameter and highly scalable.