OBST: A Self-Adjusting Peer-to-Peer Overlay Based on Multiple BSTs

OBST: A Self-Adjusting Peer-to-Peer Overlay Based on Multiple BSTs

Abstract

The design of scalable and robust overlay topologies has been a main research subject since the very origins of peer-to-peer (p2p) computing. Today, the corresponding optimization tradeoffs are fairly well-understood, at least in the static case and from a worst-case perspective. This paper revisits the peer-to-peer topology design problem from a self-organization perspective. We initiate the study of topologies which are optimized to serve the communication demand, or even self-adjusting as demand changes. The appeal of this new paradigm lies in the opportunity to be able to go beyond the lower bounds and limitations imposed by a static, communication-oblivious, topology. For example, the goal of having short routing paths (in terms of hop count) does no longer conflict with the requirement of having low peer degrees. We propose a simple overlay topology OBST(k) which is composed of k (rooted and directed) Binary Search Trees (BSTs), where k is a parameter. We first prove some fundamental bounds on what can and cannot be achieved optimizing a topology towards a static communication pattern (a static OBST(k)). In particular, we show that the number of BSTs that constitute the overlay can have a large impact on the routing costs, and that a single additional BST may reduce the amortized communication costs from Ω(log n) to O(1), where n is the number of peers. Subsequently, we discuss a natural self-adjusting extension of OBST(k), in which frequently communicating partners are “splayed together”.

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Authors
  • Avin, Chen
  • Borokhovich, Michael
  • Schmid, Stefan
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Paper in Conference Proceedings or in Workshop Proceedings (Other)
Event Title
13th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P)
Divisions
Communication Technologies
Subjects
Informatik Allgemeines
Event Location
Trento, Italy
Event Type
Conference
Event Dates
September 2013
Date
2013
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