A Self-Organizing Super-Peer Overlay with a Chord Core for Desktop Grids

  • Authors:
  • Peter Merz;Steffen Wolf;Dennis Schwerdel;Matthias Priebe

  • Affiliations:
  • Distributed Algorithms Group, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany;Distributed Algorithms Group, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany;Distributed Algorithms Group, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany;Distributed Algorithms Group, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany

  • Venue:
  • IWSOS '08 Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We present a self-organizing super-peer overlay that suits the communication requirements of a Peer-to-Peer Desktop Grid system well. This overlay combines favorable properties of Chord rings and fully meshed super-peer networks, yielding benefits that include an efficient broadcast scheme and a reduced average message hop count compared to pure Chord. To this end, we introduce a distributed algorithm that sets up such an overlay in a self-organized way. Moreover, we deploy network coordinates to improve Chord's end-to-end message routing delay and build a deterministic gossip mechanism over the Chord ring's fingers. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our concept through simulations using topology information retrieved from PlanetLab.