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Overlay Structure for Large Scale Content Sharing: Leveraging Geography as the Basis for Routing Locality

Networking and Internet Architecture 2009-03-25 v1 Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing Multimedia

Abstract

In this paper we place our arguments on two related issues in the design of generalized structured peer-to-peer overlays. First, we argue that for the large-scale content-sharing applications, lookup and content transport functions need to be treated separately. Second, to create a location-based routing overlay suitable for content sharing and other applications, we argue that off-the-shelf geographic coordinates of Internet-connected hosts can be used as a basis. We then outline the design principles and present a design for the generalized routing overlay based on adaptive hierarchical partitioning of the geographical space.

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@article{arxiv.0903.4113,
  title  = {Overlay Structure for Large Scale Content Sharing: Leveraging Geography as the Basis for Routing Locality},
  author = {Shah Asaduzzaman and Gregor v. Bochmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.4113},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

5 pages, position paper

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