A Virtual Ring Method for Building Small-World Structured P2P Overlays

This paper presents a general virtual ring method to design and analyze small-world structured P2P networks on the base es embedded in ID spaces with distance metric. Its basic idea is to abstract a virtual ring from the base topology according to the distance metric, then build small-world long links in the virtual ring and map the links back onto the real network to construct the small-world routing tables for achieving logarithmic greedy routing. Four properties are proposed to characterize the base topologies that can be turned into small world by the virtual ring method. The virtual ring method is applied to the base topologies of d-torus with Manhattan distance, high-dimensional d-torus base topologies, and other base topologies including the unbalanced d-torus and the ring topology with tree distance. Theoretical analysis and experiments demonstrate the efficiency and resilience of the proposed routing schemas.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: TKDE
• Authors: Hai Zhuge, Xiaoping Sun
• Keywords: Base Topologies, TKDE 2008, Virtual Ring, Virtual Ring Method