Decentralized and Hierarchical Discovery of Software Applications in the iShare Internet Sharing System.
Xiaojuan Ren, Zhelong Pan, Rudolf Eigenmann, Y. Charlie Hu · 2004
We present the design and evaluation of a fully decentralized software application discovery scheme – iDiscover, which is used in the iShare Internet-sharing system being built at Purdue University. The scheme employs a structured peer-to-peer (P2P) overlay routing mechanism and a hierarchical name space. The structured P2P routing mechanism is self-organizing and scalable. The hierarchical name space provides an effective way to describe software applications with their semantics. Measurements using a set of real software applications show that our resource discovery mechanism is efficient and scalable. 1