A Case for Locally-Organized Peer-to-Peer Lookup Services
Prasanna Ganesan, Qixiang Sun, Héctor García-Molina · 2002
Distributed lookup services have predominantly fallen into one of two categories: Gnutella-based sys-tems and DHTs. In this paper, we identify a set of applications for P2P lookup services, and ana-lyze each of their requirements along a commonly-chosen set of dimensions. We show that neither Gnutella nor DHTs may provide the desired trade-offs among these dimensions. We go on to demon-strate a locally-organized P2P lookup service that matches more closely with these application require-ments. 1