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1 Myconet: A Fungi-inspired Model for Superpeer-based Peer-to-Peer Overlay Topologies Paul L. Snyder and Rachel Greenstadt and Giuseppe Valetto Department of Computer Science Drexel University {pls29,greenie,valetto}@ Abstract—Unstructured peer-to-peer networks can be ex- tremely ?exible, but, because of size, complexity, and high variability in peers’ capacity and reliability, it is a continuing challenge to build peer-to-peer systems that are resilient to failure and effectively manage their available resources. We have drawn inspiration from the sophisticated, robust, root-like structures of fungal hyphae to design Myconet, an approach to superpeer overlay construction, which models regular peers as biomass, and superpeers as hyphae that attract and concentrate bio-mass, while maintaining strong inter-connections with one another. Simulations of the Myconet peer-to-peer protocol show promising results in terms of network stabilization, response to catastrophic failure, capacity utilization, and proportion of peers to superpeers, when compared to other unstructured approaches. I. INTRODUCTION Fig. 1. Mycelium growing [5] Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks are highly-decentralized, large- scale distributed systems. These networks can be extremely large, scaling to millions of peers, with levels of network natural hyphal structures inspires interconnection strategies membership that can be highly unstable. Many P2P networks between peers and superpeers, the promotion of regular peers require high levels of self-management, resilience in the face to superpeers, and the incremental aggregation of regular peers of changing conditions, and central authorization or sup