Compliance management for P2P systems

Compliance management for peer-to-peer networks describes a process ensuring that content inside the network is distributed and stored in a way that does not violate user defined preferences. Several use cases, ranging from file-sharing networks to distributed computing and content delivery networks, can be enhanced with compliance management. To our knowledge there are no existing peer-to-peer architectures which allow for compliance management. In this paper we propose an architecture, which utilizes policy-based routing and storage as well as a categorization of content in order to provide compliance management. We implement a prototype and evaluate it through simulations to show that compliance management in peer-to-peer networks is actually feasible.