T. C. Jermin Jeaunita¹,T. C. Jermin Jersha²,¹PESIT Bangalore South Campus, India and ²P. S. V. Padmavathy Engineering College, India

Since its inception, Internet has grown tremendously not only in the size of its customers but also with the technology used behind to run it. For the well ex-istence and proper development of Peer-to-Peer Networks, all nodes in the overlay must be cooperative and donate their resources for any other peer. The paper dis-cusses the reason of peers being selfish, causes of selfish peers and the methods used so far to resolve selfish peers problem. A Genetic Algorithm based solution has been proposed in this paper that solves the selfish nodes problem in Peer-to-Peer Networks and that also encourages the cooperation among all nodes in the overlay. An architecture HAMALT is proposed in this paper for disseminating altruism among the peers

Altruism, Genetics, Kin Selection, Overlay, Peer-to-Peer Networks, Selfish Nodes.