Management of Peer-to-Peer Networks Applied to Instant Messaging
Abstract
Peer-to-peer networking has allowed the development of new applications that couldn't have been built on the client/server model. Having a good operation of such applications implies a considerable support of underlying networks and services. A typical application is instant messaging and we present an instrumentation of one of the existing one. In order to do that, we use the abstract model for such a service defined in the IETF context. Finally, this work is materialized by the instrumentation of a basic service: the presence service. We have used a particular Instant messaging application that is JXTA based: JIM. This last is built on the JXTA development environnement and allows our instrumentation to be reusable for other instant messaging applications.