METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR THE SUPERVISION OF TRANSACTIONS IN A PEER-TO-PEER OVERLAY NETWORK

摘要

The present invention relates to the supervision of transactions in peer-to-peer (P2P) overlay networks. A P2P overlay network often consists of peers interconnected via different access technologies having significant different round-trip time (RTT) delays. Current time supervisions of retransmissions and transactions in P2P networks have fixed values. This has the disadvantages that if the timer values are too short, unnecessary retransmissions are performed although a response would be on its way. If the timer values are too long it results in unnecessarily long messaging delays. These disadvantages have been overcome by a method and a peer for adapting the timer values to the conditions in the P2P overlay network.