Symmetric replication for structured peer-to-peer systems

  • Authors:
  • Ali Ghodsi;Luc Onana Alima;Seif Haridi

  • Affiliations:
  • KTH, Royal Institute of Technology;Swedish Institute of Computer Science;KTH, Royal Institute of Technology and Swedish Institute of Computer Science

  • Venue:
  • DBISP2P'05/06 Proceedings of the 2005/2006 international conference on Databases, information systems, and peer-to-peer computing
  • Year:
  • 2005

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Structured peer-to-peer systems rely on replication as a basic means to provide fault-tolerance in presence of high churn. Most select replicas using either multiple hash functions, successor-lists, or leaf-sets. We show that all three alternatives have limitations. We present and provide full algorithmic specification for a generic replication scheme called symmetric replication which only needs O(1) message for every join and leave operation to maintain any replication degree. The scheme is applicable to all existing structured peer-to-peer systems, and can be implemented on-top of any DHT. The scheme has been implemented in our DKS system, and is used to do load-balancing, end-to-end faulttolerance, and to increase the security by using distributed voting. We outline an extension to the scheme, implemented in DKS, which adds routing proximity to reduce latencies. The scheme is particularly suitable for use with erasure codes, as it can be used to fetch a random subset of the replicas for decoding.