A Survey and Comparison of Peer-to-Peer Overlay Network Schemes Export

@article{citeulike:5043255, abstract = {Abstract — Over the Internet today, computing and communications environments are significantly more complex and chaotic than classical distributed systems, lacking any centralized organization or hierarchical control. There has been much interest in emerging Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network overlays because they provide a good substrate for creating large-scale data sharing, content distribution and application-level multicast applications. These P2P networks try to provide a long list of features such as: selection of nearby peers, redundant storage, efficient search/location of data items, data permanence or guarantees, hierarchical naming, trust and authentication, and, anonymity. P2P networks potentially offer an efficient routing architecture that is self-organizing, massively scalable, and robust in the wide-area, combining fault tolerance, load balancing and explicit notion of locality. In this paper, we present a survey and comparison of various Structured and Unstructured P2P networks. We categorize the various schemes into these two groups in the design spectrum and discuss the application-level network performance of each group.}, author = {Lua, Eng K. and Crowcroft, Jon and Pias, Marcelo and Sharma, Ravi and Lim, Steven}, citeulike-article-id = {5043255}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.109.6124}, journal = {IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials}, keywords = {p2p, survey}, pages = {72--93}, posted-at = {2009-07-02 20:08:05}, priority = {2}, title = {A Survey and Comparison of Peer-to-Peer Overlay Network Schemes}, url = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.109.6124}, volume = {7}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5043255 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5043255 N2 - Abstract — Over the Internet today, computing and communications environments are significantly more complex and chaotic than classical distributed systems, lacking any centralized organization or hierarchical control. There has been much interest in emerging Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network overlays because they provide a good substrate for creating large-scale data sharing, content distribution and application-level multicast applications. These P2P networks try to provide a long list of features such as: selection of nearby peers, redundant storage, efficient search/location of data items, data permanence or guarantees, hierarchical naming, trust and authentication, and, anonymity. P2P networks potentially offer an efficient routing architecture that is self-organizing, massively scalable, and robust in the wide-area, combining fault tolerance, load balancing and explicit notion of locality. In this paper, we present a survey and comparison of various Structured and Unstructured P2P networks. We categorize the various schemes into these two groups in the design spectrum and discuss the application-level network performance of each group. JF - IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials EP - 93 TI - A Survey and Comparison of Peer-to-Peer Overlay Network Schemes VL - 7 SP - 72 KW - p2p KW - survey AU - Lua, Eng AU - Crowcroft, Jon AU - Pias, Marcelo AU - Sharma, Ravi AU - Lim, Steven PY - 2005/// UR - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.109.6124 ER -