A Service-Oriented Peer-to-Peer Architecture for a Digital Ecosystem

Abstract

Service-oriented computing is becoming an increasingly popular paradigm for modelling and building distributed systems in heterogeneous, decentralised, and open environments. However, proposed service-oriented architectures are usually based on centralised components, such as service registries or service brokers, that introduce reliability, management, and performance issues. In this paper, we present a fully decentralised service-oriented architecture built on top of a self-organising peer-to-peer infrastructure. This architecture is especially designed to support digital ecosystems due to its low deployment and maintenance cost and inherently decentralised nature.