Building dependable peer-to-peer systems
Koen Vanthournout, Geert Deconinck, Ronnie J. M. Belmans · Dependable Systems and Networks · 2004
Self-organizing genuinely distributed overlay networks (Peer-to-Peer networks) are expected to survive in the advent of failures. As such, they require a high resilience against node failures, message failures and network partitioning. This paper proposes three strategies to realize this: the use of a small-world topology, the use of the selforganization mechanisms for failure detection and failure handling and the use of cross-partition pointers to deal with network partitions. Simulations of a Peer-to-Peer resource discovery network that deploys these strategies confirm their validity.