Simulating the network dynamics in market-oriented overlay networks

In this paper, we develop a rational model of a market-oriented overlay network in which peers trade resources and services through a common currency called energy. In our model, an overlay network is created by a set of non-cooperative resource providing peers, called platforms, that modify local connectivities to other platforms to maximize their own energy gains. Resource consuming peers, called agents, are simply designed to migrate platform-to-platform to find least expensive resources in the network. Computer simulations are conducted to examine topological properties of the network to be created from interactions among non-cooperative platforms.