A scalable content-addressable network Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:4300, abstract = {Hash tables - which map "keys" onto "values" - are an essential building block in modern software systems. We believe a similar functionality would be equally valuable to large distributed systems. In this paper, we introduce the concept of a Content-Addressable Network (CAN) as a distributed infrastructure that provides hash table-like functionality on Internet-like scales. The CAN is scalable, fault-tolerant and completely self-organizing, and we demonstrate its scalability, robustness and low-latency properties through simulation.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Ratnasamy, Sylvia and Francis, Paul and Handley, Mark and Karp, Richard and Schenker, Scott}, booktitle = {SIGCOMM '01: Proceedings of the 2001 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications}, citeulike-article-id = {4300}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=383072}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/383059.383072}, doi = {10.1145/383059.383072}, isbn = {1-58113-411-8}, location = {San Diego, California, United States}, month = {October}, number = {4}, pages = {161--172}, posted-at = {2005-11-15 18:31:22}, priority = {0}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {A scalable content-addressable network}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/383059.383072}, volume = {31}, year = {2001} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:4300 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4300 N2 - Hash tables - which map "keys" onto "values" - are an essential building block in modern software systems. We believe a similar functionality would be equally valuable to large distributed systems. In this paper, we introduce the concept of a Content-Addressable Network (CAN) as a distributed infrastructure that provides hash table-like functionality on Internet-like scales. The CAN is scalable, fault-tolerant and completely self-organizing, and we demonstrate its scalability, robustness and low-latency properties through simulation. CY - San Diego, California, United States IS - 4 SN - 1-58113-411-8 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 172 TI - A scalable content-addressable network PB - ACM VL - 31 T2 - SIGCOMM '01: Proceedings of the 2001 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications SP - 161 AU - Ratnasamy, Sylvia AU - Francis, Paul AU - Handley, Mark AU - Karp, Richard AU - Schenker, Scott PY - 2001/10// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/383059.383072 ER -