An Evaluation of Chord and Pastry Models in OverSim

Peer-to-peer (P2P) simulation frameworks are excellent tools for developing and testing P2P algorithms, however there has been very little work done on validation of the models within these frameworks. Validation of these models is an important issue, as without knowing the models are valid we can not necessarily rely on the results generated using such models. In this work we provide an independent evaluation of both the Chord and Pastry Distributed Hash Table (DHT) models within OverSim, and validate the models by comparison against results presented in the original Chord and Pastry papers.