Ephemeral State Assisted Discovery of Peer-to-peer Networks
English
Martin, Sylvain[Université de Liège - ULg > Dép. d'électric., électron. et informat. (Inst.Montefiore) > Réseaux informatiques >]
Leduc, Guy[Université de Liège - ULg > Dép. d'électric., électron. et informat. (Inst.Montefiore) > Réseaux informatiques >]
May-2007
1st IEEE Workshop on Autonomic Communications and Network Management
Boutaba, Raouf
Brunner, Marcus
Schmid, Stefan
9-16
No
International
IEEE ACNM 2007
25 May 2007
Munich
Germany
[en] Peer to peer ; Discovery
[en] In the past few years there has been an impressive number of proposals for application-specific overlays or peerto-peer networks. However the procedure to bootstrap peers in those networks has remained an under-researched topic, typically left as an implementation detail. In this paper, we first study the performance of history lists, a common decentralised bootstrap mechanism used in P2P applications. We then investigate how some lightweight network support, such as Ephemeral State, could help build a P2P application that would not depend on any centralised mechanism to discover other peers.
Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (Communauté française de Belgique) - F.R.S.-FNRS