A Fuzzy Based Approach for Effective Data Replication in Peer-to-Peer Networks

Abstract: A P2P network is one of the most usable local area network that provides the interconnectivity between the nodes. But as the communication increases over the network, the load on some centralized nodes or the server is increased. In such case, there is the requirement of setup some sub system over the network to distribute the network load. Such sub systems are called replication servers. These systems can have full or the partial copy of the actual centralized server. The main problem in such systems is to find optimal number of replication servers required in the system. The presented research is about to identify the required number of such sub systems over the network. In this work, a statistical analysis is been presented based on the network capabilities, network distribution and the node requirements.

Keywords: P2P, Replication, Distribution, Optimization, Statistical Analysis