Publish/subscribe (pub/sub) is a popular communication paradigm in the design of largescale distributed systems. We are witnessing an increasingly widespread use of pub/sub networks for a wide array of applications in industry , academia , financial data dissemination , business process management and does not end in social networking sites which takes a large area of user interests and used network baseband . Social network interactions have grown exponentially in recent years to the order of billions of notifications generated by millions of users every day. So It has become very important to access in the field of publishing and subscription networks, especially peerto- peer (P2P) networks that used at first the Scribe data routing protocol. Since then, many developments and improvements have been made to create new designs. One of these designs is the Polder Cast protocol. The research studies most used protocols performance to assess the effectiveness of each in terms of the speed of the publication and subscription of topic , required resources and distribution of load .