A distributed polylogarithmic time algorithm for self-stabilizing skip graphs

  • Authors:
  • Riko Jacob;Andrea Richa;Christian Scheideler;Stefan Schmid;Hanjo Täubig

  • Affiliations:
  • Technische Universität München, Garching bei München, Germany;Arizona State University, Tempe, USA;University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany;Technische Universität München, Garching bei München, Germany;Technische Universität München, Garching bei München, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 28th ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Peer-to-peer systems rely on scalable overlay networks that enable efficient routing between its members. Hypercubic topologies facilitate such operations while each node only needs to connect to a small number of other nodes. In contrast to static communication networks, peer-to-peer networks allow nodes to adapt their neighbor set over time in order to react to join and leave events and failures. This paper shows how to maintain such networks in a robust manner. Concretely, we present a distributed and self-stabilizing algorithm that constructs a (variant of the) skip graph in polylogarithmic time from any initial state in which the overlay network is still weakly connected. This is an exponential improvement compared to previously known self-stabilizing algorithms for overlay networks. In addition, individual joins and leaves are handled locally and require little work.