I'm looking for existing literature on systems where the host as well as the guests are all dynamic; any device might drop out at any moment, or reconnect.
Use case: ad-hoc mobile compute-farms where the mobile devices consume data from attached sensors and carry out tasks delegated to them by the host(s). The host (task-broker) itself might change over the course of time, and the devices are not necessarily homogeneous.
I couldn't think of any networks where both the host and the guests were dynamic and could change over time.