Preserving Peer Replicas By Rate-Limited Sampled Voting in LOCKSS
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
2007-05-23 v3 Digital Libraries
Abstract
The LOCKSS project has developed and deployed in a world-wide test a peer-to-peer system for preserving access to journals and other archival information published on the Web. It consists of a large number of independent, low-cost, persistent web caches that cooperate to detect and repair damage to their content by voting in "opinion polls." Based on this experience, we present a design for and simulations of a novel protocol for voting in systems of this kind. It incorporates rate limitation and intrusion detection to ensure that even some very powerful adversaries attacking over many years have only a small probability of causing irrecoverable damage before being detected.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cs/0303026,
title = {Preserving Peer Replicas By Rate-Limited Sampled Voting in LOCKSS},
author = {Petros Maniatis and Mema Roussopoulos and TJ Giuli and David S. H. Rosenthal and Mary Baker and Yanto Muliadi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0303026},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
25 Pages, 10 figures. Extended version of conference paper