Design Patterns Usage in Peer-to-Peer Systems--An Empirical Analysis

• Published in: 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology Workshops pp. 459 - 462
• Main Authors: Aleksy, Markus, Korthaus, Axel, Seifried, Christian
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC, USA IEEE Computer Society 18.12.2006; IEEE
• Series: ACM Conferences
• Subjects: Application software; Computer systems organization > Architectures > Distributed architectures; Data security; Intelligent agent; Network topology; Networks > Network architectures; Pattern analysis; Peer to peer computing; Programming; Resource management; Software and its engineering > Software notations and tools > General programming languages > Language features > Patterns; Software and its engineering > Software organization and properties > Software system structures > Distributed systems organizing principles > Client-server architectures; Software and its engineering > Software organization and properties > Software system structures > Software architectures; Software design; Software systems
• ISBN: 0769527493; 9780769527499
• DOI: 10.1109/WI-IATW.2006.57

In this paper, we present the results of an empirical analysis regarding the application and realization of established design patterns in existing peer-to-peer system implementations. Among the goals of our research were the identification of relevant design patterns that are particularly helpful and well suited for the implementation of peer-to-peer architectures and the discovery of potential shortfalls with respect to the capitalization on design patterns in that domain. We describe which design pattern realizations were encountered in the analyzed system implementations and how frequently they were applied, and finally we draw some conclusions from our findings.