A framework for structured peer-to-peer overlay networks

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

  • Affiliations:
  • Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS), IMIT-Royal Institute of Technology (KTH);Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS), IMIT-Royal Institute of Technology (KTH);Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS), IMIT-Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

  • Venue:
  • GC'04 Proceedings of the 2004 IST/FET international conference on Global Computing
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Structured peer-to-peer overlay networks have recently emerged as good candidate infrastructure for building novel large-scale and robust Internet applications in which participating peers share computing resources as equals. In the past three year, various structured peer-to-peer overlay networks have been proposed, and probably more are to come. We present a framework for understanding, analyzing and designing structured peer-to-peer overlay networks. The main objective of the paper is to provide practical guidelines for the design of structured overlay networks by identifying a fundamental element in the construction of overlay networks: the embedding of k–ary trees. Then, a number of effective techniques for maintaining these overlay networks are discussed. The proposed framework has been effective in the development of the DKS system, whose preliminary design appears in [2].