Small-scale peer-to-peer overlays

  • Authors:
  • Minor Gordon

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Scalability and efficient global search in large-scale peer-to-peer overlays often come at the expense of small-scale, local interactions between peers. For many users, local operations such as browsing, messaging, and direct content exchange between nodes may be more useful than access to the network as a whole. In this note we sketch the design of a small-scale overlay for applications such as ticketing systems, editorial coordination, and ad hoc workflows that currently rely on more general and less efficient mediums such as e-mail. Peers in the overlay form local economies and attempt to maximize user-directed utility functions.