Fulfilling the vision of fully autonomic peer-to-peer systems

A peer-to-peer (P2P) distributed system is a network of collectors, providers and consumers of resources. In order to be autonomic, peers may be provided with an internal structure being dynamically adjusted by an adaptive plan which determines successive re-configurations in response to the environment. To address this challenging problem, we have introduced the Adaptive Autonomic Framework, that allows to turn any P2P network in a complex adaptive system. In this paper we present the performance analysis of an AEF-based architecture for Grid Computing.