Heterogenous dating service with application to rumor spreading

Peer-to-Peer overlay networks have proven their efficiency for storing and retrieving data at large scale, but new services are required to take the actual performances of resources into account. In this paper, we describe a fully decentralized algorithm, called "dating service" meant to organize communications in a fully heterogeneous network, that ensures that communication capabilities of the nodes are not exceeded. We prove that with high probability, this service ensures that a constant fraction of all possible communications is organized. Interestingly enough, this property holds true even if a node is not able to choose another node uniformly at random. In particular, the dating service can be implemented over existing DHT-based systems. In order to illustrate the expressiveness and the usefulness of proposed service, we also present a possible practical application of the dating service. As an illustration, we propose an algorithm for rumor spreading that enables to...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: IPPS
• Authors: Olivier Beaumont, Philippe Duchon, Miroslaw Korzeniowski
• Keywords: Dating Service, Distributed And Parallel Computing, IPPS 2008, Large Scale, Peer-to-peer Overlay Networks