Elders know best - Handling churn in less structured P2P systems

Yi Qiao*, Fabian E Bustamante

*Corresponding author for this work

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7 Scopus citations

Abstract

We address the problem of highly transient populations in unstructured and loosely-structured peer-to-peer systems. We propose a number of illustrative query-related strategies and organizational protocols that, by taking into consideration the expected session times of peers (their lifespans), yield systems with performance characteristics more resilient to the natural instability of their environments. We first demonstrate the benefits of lifespan-based organizational protocols in terms of end-application performance and in the context of dynamic and heterogeneous Internet environments. We do this using a number of currently adopted and proposed query-related strategies, including methods for query distribution, caching and replication. We then show, through trace-driven simulation and wide-area experimentation, the performance advantages of lifespan-based, query-related strategies when layered over currently employed and lifespan-based organizational protocols. While merely illustrative, the evaluated strategies and protocols clearly demonstrate the advantages of considering peers' session time in designing widely-deployed peer-to-peer systems.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - Fifth IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing, P2P 2005
Pages77-86
Number of pages10
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 1 2005
Event5th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing, P2P 2005 - onstanz, Germany
Duration: Aug 31 2005Sep 2 2005

Publication series

NameProceedings - Fifth IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing, P2P 2005
Volume2005

Other

Other5th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing, P2P 2005
Country/TerritoryGermany
Cityonstanz
Period8/31/059/2/05

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Engineering

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