A generic KBR library with built-in simulation capabilities

Author

Elser, Benedikt ; Fuhrmann, Thomas

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Tech. Univ. Munchen, Munich, Germany

fYear

2011

fDate

4-8 July 2011

Firstpage

585

Lastpage

592

Abstract

Peer-to-peer technologies play an important role in modern applications. Structured P2P overlays have mostly been applied for distributed hash tables (DHTs). But structured routing overlays can provide more general services than a DHT alone. This fact is known in the literature, but rarely reflected in running code. In this paper, we introduce a generic key based routing (KBR) system. It provides a library with an easy-to-use interface and an underlying KBR daemon. Together, they can serve a wide variety of applications. The IGOR daemon and the library are implemented in a well-structured and extensible manner. An integrated network simulation component enables application developers to test their code locally before deployment. Our library has already been successfully used for various fully decentralized applications including a chat service [1], a video-on-demand system [2, 3], and a fully decentralized file system [4,5].

Keywords

electronic messaging; peer-to-peer computing; program testing; software libraries; video on demand; IGOR daemon; built-in simulation capability; chat service; code testing; decentralized application; decentralized file system; distributed hash tables; generic key based routing library; peer-to-peer technology; structured P2P overlays; structured routing overlays; video-on-demand system; Libraries; Peer to peer computing; Relays; Routing; Servers; Sockets; Software; Key based routing; Network simulation; Peer-to-peer middleware;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Performance Computing and Simulation (HPCS), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Istanbul

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-380-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HPCSim.2011.5999878

Filename

5999878