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Explore the innovative concept of a scalable content-addressable network (CAN) for peer-to-peer file distribution systems, utilizing hash tables and multi-dimensional Cartesian coordinates. Learn about routing mechanisms, coordinate routing tables, and design improvements for enhanced performance.
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A Scalable content-addressable network Presenter: Baoning Wu
Motivation • Many peer-to-peer systems appear, but most of them are not scalable. • Napster needs a central server to store index of all files. • Gnutella floods request with a certain scope. • Can we have a scalable p2p file distribution system?
CAN (content-addressable network) • Scalable indexing mechanism is crucial in scalable p2p systems. • Hash table is used! • (key, value) pair • Each CAN node stores a chunk(zone) of the entire hash table
Design • D-dimensional Cartesian co-ordinate space • Map key to a point P with a determined hash function • Routing the request if the point P is not owned by the requesting node or its immediate neighbors.
Routing detail • Each CAN node maintains coordinate routing table that holds the IP address and virtual coordinate zone of its neighbors. • Routing a message towards its destination by simple greedy forwarding to the neighbor with coordinated closest to the destination coordinates.
Design improvement: multiple dimensions vs. multiple realities
Review • Dimensionality • Number of realities • Number of peer nodes per zone • Number of hash functions • Use of RTT weighted routing metric • Use of topologically-sensitive construction