A Multi-agent Mechanism for Topology Balancing in Unstructured P2P Networks

Unstructured P2P networks can grow in an ad-hoc and give rise to scale-free graphs where most of the nodes form clusters or hubs around few resourceful nodes. This leads to congestion and bottleneck problems around the hubs ensuing search latencies for users´ resource search queries. Here, we describe a multi-agent enabled P2P network setup protocol that maintains a small-world network structure to prevent the formation of scale-free graphs in unstructured P2P networks.