A Naming Scheme for P2P Web Hosting

The peer—to—peer paradigm has great potential of providing the next generation Web hosting infrastructure. Profound advancements in P2P technology in the last decade have proven its capability to provide functionality similar to traditional client—server systems at a much larger scale with relatively lower cost. Existing centralized website hosting technology has a number of inherent deficiencies including scalability, single point of failure, administration overhead, hosting expenses, etc. P2P Web hosting can effectively address these problems and hence open a new era for next generation Web hosting. However peer availability and content location are highly dynamic in a P2P network. This dynamism raises a number of research challenges related to naming, addressing, indexing, and searching in a P2P environment. In this paper we identify the practical requirements for devising a secure, persistent, and human—friendly naming scheme for P2P Web hosting and propose a novel naming scheme that satisfies all these requirements. We also present extensive simulation results validating the accuracy, scalability and fault-resilience of the proposed naming scheme.