Replication Methods for Load Balancing on Distributed Storagesin P2P Networks*The earlier version of this paper was presented at the 2005 International Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT2005).

  • Authors:

  • Hiroshi Yamamoto;Daisuke Maruta;Yuji Oie

  • Affiliations:

  • The authors are with the Department of Computer Science and Electronics, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Iizuka-shi, 820--8502 Japan. E-mail: yamamoto@infonet.cse.kyutech.ac.jp;The authors are with the Department of Computer Science and Electronics, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Iizuka-shi, 820--8502 Japan. E-mail: yamamoto@infonet.cse.kyutech.ac.jp;The authors are with the Department of Computer Science and Electronics, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Iizuka-shi, 820--8502 Japan. E-mail: yamamoto@infonet.cse.kyutech.ac.jp

  • Venue:
  • IEICE - Transactions on Information and Systems
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network, in order to improve the search performance and to achieve load balancing, replicas of original data are created and distributed over the Internet. However, the replication methods which have been proposed so far focus only on the improvement of search performance. In this paper, we examine the load on the storage systems, which is due to writing and reading, and propose two replication methods for balancing the load on the storages distributed over P2P networks while limiting the degradation of the search performance within an acceptable level. Furthermore, we investigate the performance of our proposed replication methods through computer simulations, and show their effectiveness in balancing the load.