A proactive low-overhead file replication scheme for structured P2P content delivery networks Export

@article{replication, abstract = {File replication is a widely used technique for high performance in peer-to-peer content delivery networks. A file replication technique should be efficient and at the same time facilitates efficient file consistency maintenance. However, most traditional methods do not consider nodes' available capacity and physical location in file replication, leading to high overhead for both file replication and consistency maintenance. This paper presents a proactive low-overhead file replication scheme, namely Plover. By making file replicas among physically close nodes based on nodes' available capacities, Plover not only achieves high efficiency in file replication but also supports low-cost and timely consistency maintenance. It also includes an efficient file query redirection algorithm for load balancing between replica nodes. Theoretical analysis and simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of Plover in comparison with other file replication schemes. It dramatically reduces the overhead of both file replication and consistency maintenance compared to other schemes. In addition, it yields significant improvements in reduction of overloaded nodes.}, author = {Shen, Haiying and Zhu, Yingwu}, citeulike-article-id = {4186237}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpdc.2009.02.008}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0743731509000264}, day = {12}, doi = {10.1016/j.jpdc.2009.02.008}, issn = {07437315}, journal = {Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing}, keywords = {contentdistribution, distributedsystems, replication, scaling}, month = {May}, number = {5}, pages = {429--440}, posted-at = {2009-08-28 00:25:25}, priority = {2}, title = {A proactive low-overhead file replication scheme for structured P2P content delivery networks}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpdc.2009.02.008}, volume = {69}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - replication L3 - citeulike-article-id:4186237 N2 - File replication is a widely used technique for high performance in peer-to-peer content delivery networks. A file replication technique should be efficient and at the same time facilitates efficient file consistency maintenance. However, most traditional methods do not consider nodes’ available capacity and physical location in file replication, leading to high overhead for both file replication and consistency maintenance. This paper presents a proactive low-overhead file replication scheme, namely Plover. By making file replicas among physically close nodes based on nodes’ available capacities, Plover not only achieves high efficiency in file replication but also supports low-cost and timely consistency maintenance. It also includes an efficient file query redirection algorithm for load balancing between replica nodes. Theoretical analysis and simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of Plover in comparison with other file replication schemes. It dramatically reduces the overhead of both file replication and consistency maintenance compared to other schemes. In addition, it yields significant improvements in reduction of overloaded nodes. IS - 5 JF - Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing SN - 07437315 EP - 440 TI - A proactive low-overhead file replication scheme for structured P2P content delivery networks VL - 69 SP - 429 KW - contentdistribution KW - distributedsystems KW - replication KW - scaling AU - Shen, Haiying AU - Zhu, Yingwu PY - 2009/05/12/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpdc.2009.02.008 ER -