Locating Data in (Small-World?) Peer-to-Peer Scientific Collaborations

  • Authors:
  • Adriana Iamnitchi;Matei Ripeanu;Ian T. Foster

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IPTPS '01 Revised Papers from the First International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Data-sharing scientific collaborations have particular characteristics, potentially different from the current peer-to-peer environments. In this paper we advocate the benefits of exploiting emergent patterns in self-configuring networks specialized for scientific data-sharing collaborations. We speculate that a peer-to-peer scientific collaboration network will exhibit small-world topology, as do a large number of social networks for which the same pattern has been documented. We propose a solution for locating data in decentralized, scientific, data-sharing environments that exploits the small-worlds topology. The research challenge we raise is: what protocols should be used to allow a self-configuring peer-to-peer network to form small worlds similar to the way in which the humans that use the network do in their social interactions?