PACE: A Peer-to-Peer Architectural Style for Decentralized Applications

Poster and Demonstration

Students: Girish Suryanarayana, Mamadou Diallo

Abstract: Peer-to-peer (P2P) applications are composed of a distributed collection of entities that cooperate in order to perform some common task. We believe the domain of decentralized distributed applications is fertile ground for examining the utility of P2P architectures. An architectural style is an abstraction of recurring composition and interaction characteristics of a set of architectures and thus facilitates reuse. We introduce PACE, a layered architectural style for decentralized peer-to-peer applications. We also demonstrate a simulation of centralized and decentralized solutions to an emergency-response situation to prove the feasibility of the P2P approach.

Bio: Girish Suryanarayana is a Ph.D. student in the School of Information and Computer Science at UC Irvine. His research interests lie mainly in the areas of peer-to-peer (P2P) architectures and applications. He has published his work in the International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems.

Bio: Mamadou Diallo is an undergraduate senior student in the School of Information and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine.