P6P: a peer-to-peer approach to internet infrastructure

  • Authors:
  • Lidong Zhou;Robbert van Renesse

  • Affiliations:
  • Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, Mountain View, CA;Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

  • Venue:
  • IPTPS'04 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Peer-to-Peer Systems
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

P6P is a new, incrementally deployable networking infrastructure that resolves the growing tensions between the Internet routing infrastructure and the end sites of the Internet. P6P decouples the two through a P2P overlay network formed by the edge routers. P6P brings the benefits of IPv6 directly to end hosts, solving the major headache of IPv6 deployment as well as those of ISP switching, multihoming, and dynamic addressing. P6P advocates Internet innovations at the overlay formed by the edge routers, rather than at the core Internet. P2P protocols can be incorporated into P6P to provide advanced features such as multicast. This opens the door for P2P research to play a central role in shaping the future of the Internet. The paper describes the P6P design and architecture, addresses the security and performance concerns, and shows simulation results that support its feasibility.