Engineering a peer to peer architecture: A complex adaptive system approach

Vakili, Golnaz; Khorsandi, Siavash

doi:10.1109/systems.2010.5482487

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“…P2P technology for the provision of PHSs can be flexible and inexpensive for users because it uses available devices at the user’s end for deployment. The characteristics of P2P systems, such as fault tolerance, security and trust, scalability, availability, self-reconfiguration, and extensibility [ 35 , 36 ], facilitate and suit the provision of PHSs. With millions of users worldwide, P2P systems have shown strength in providing services for sharing resources without the need for a central server, for streaming multimedia content with distributed load balancing, for volunteering of computing resources, and for telephony applications.…”

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Security Engineering of Patient-Centered Health Care Information Systems in Peer-to-Peer Environments: Systematic Review

Yari¹,

Dehling²,

Kluge³

et al. 2021

J Med Internet Res

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Background Patient-centered health care information systems (PHSs) enable patients to take control and become knowledgeable about their own health, preferably in a secure environment. Current and emerging PHSs use either a centralized database, peer-to-peer (P2P) technology, or distributed ledger technology for PHS deployment. The evolving COVID-19 decentralized Bluetooth-based tracing systems are examples of disease-centric P2P PHSs. Although using P2P technology for the provision of PHSs can be flexible, scalable, resilient to a single point of failure, and inexpensive for patients, the use of health information on P2P networks poses major security issues as users must manage information security largely by themselves. Objective This study aims to identify the inherent security issues for PHS deployment in P2P networks and how they can be overcome. In addition, this study reviews different P2P architectures and proposes a suitable architecture for P2P PHS deployment. Methods A systematic literature review was conducted following PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) reporting guidelines. Thematic analysis was used for data analysis. We searched the following databases: IEEE Digital Library, PubMed, Science Direct, ACM Digital Library, Scopus, and Semantic Scholar. The search was conducted on articles published between 2008 and 2020. The Common Vulnerability Scoring System was used as a guide for rating security issues. Results Our findings are consolidated into 8 key security issues associated with PHS implementation and deployment on P2P networks and 7 factors promoting them. Moreover, we propose a suitable architecture for P2P PHSs and guidelines for the provision of PHSs while maintaining information security. Conclusions Despite the clear advantages of P2P PHSs, the absence of centralized controls and inconsistent views of the network on some P2P systems have profound adverse impacts in terms of security. The security issues identified in this study need to be addressed to increase patients’ intention to use PHSs on P2P networks by making them safe to use.

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Security Engineering of Patient-Centered Health Care Information Systems in Peer-to-Peer Environments: Systematic Review

Yari¹,

Dehling²,

Kluge³

et al. 2021

J Med Internet Res

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“…Therefore, it is essential to eliminate the inherent tension between individual utility of the peers and overall utility of the system. In the previous work1 [Vakili and Khorsandi, 2010], we proposed a new principled approach to engineer a peer‐to‐peer system based on the integration of top‐down and bottom‐up design. By taking this approach in this paper, we handle coordination of distributed cooperation policy setting in rational peers to improve overall performance of the system.…”

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Emergence of cooperation in peer‐to‐peer systems: A complex adaptive system approach

Vakili

Tabatabaee

Khorsandi

2012

Systems Engineering

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Overall performance of a peer-to-peer system can be highly variable and unpredictable as there is no central authority to set and coordinate the amount of resource contributions made by constituent peers. In this paper, we address the problem of optimal cooperation policy setting for individual peers by taking into account their rationality, and with respect to a set of overall constraints imposed by resource-driven requirements of the system. We formalize distributed cooperation policy setting as an asynchronous distributed decision making (ADDM) process and represent an integrated design for this process in two top-down and bottom-up phases. In top-down design, we specify the overall objective and constraints and in line with them, we synthesize the local objectives of individual peers. We show that the rational peers should continuously adapt their cooperation policies asynchronously and autonomously according to the policies of the other participants in order to maximize their local objectives. To this end, we devise a self-organizing interaction mechanism in the bottom-up phase and demonstrate that it coordinates asynchronous distributed decisions of individual peers with respect to the overall objective and constraints through local interactions.

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Risk assessment model based on multi-agent systems for complex product design

Shen

et al. 2013

Inf Syst Front

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Engineering a peer to peer architecture: A complex adaptive system approach

Cited by 4 publications

References 21 publications

Security Engineering of Patient-Centered Health Care Information Systems in Peer-to-Peer Environments: Systematic Review

Security Engineering of Patient-Centered Health Care Information Systems in Peer-to-Peer Environments: Systematic Review

Emergence of cooperation in peer‐to‐peer systems: A complex adaptive system approach

Risk assessment model based on multi-agent systems for complex product design

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