Peer-to-peer overlay network management through AGILE

Currently, state of the art peer-to-peer (P2P) lookup mechanisms actively create and manage a peer application layer overlay network to achieve scalability and efficiency. The proposed mechanism AGILE (Adaptive Group-of-Interest-based Lookup Engine) extends this management approach, adapting the overlay network such as to bring requesting peers and desired lookup items close together, reducing the number of hops and, thus, latency as well as bandwidth requirements for a lookup. At the same time, AGILE introduces mechanisms to build a fair system.