Epeerdemics: a peer-to-peer simulator targeting epidemic-based protocols

In the last decade, several P2P simulators have been proposed. Essentially, they differ in the level of abstraction provided, the programming language used and flexibility in developing protocols. To ease the evaluation and comparison of protocols, these simulators are often bundled with several well-known protocols. Unfortunately, only a few P2P simulators are specific to unstructured protocols and only a subset of them provide a bundle of epidemic-based protocols as baselines for testing. We developed Epeerdemics with the aim of filling this void. Epeerdemics is an extension to Overlay Weaver, an overlay construction toolkit widely diffused in the P2P community, mainly used for developing structured protocols. Epeerdemics is specifically designed to ease the development and testing of epidemic-based protocols. Protocols can either be developed from scratch or by extending the protocols provided with Epeerdemics.