Improving Availability of P2P Storage Systems

This paper discusses how to building high available storage systems on top of peer-to-peer infrastructure. We first demonstrate that traditional definitions of availability are not suitable for distributed systems. Then the application-specific availability is defined and analyzed in this paper. We observed by experiments that, in a P2P storage system with frequently node join and leave, availability can’t be improved effectively by pure redundancy (replication or erasure coding). A method is proposed in this paper which combines peer auto-selection and redundancy to effectively improve the availability of P2P storage systems.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: APPT
• Authors: Shuming Shi, Guangwen Yang, Jin Yu, Yongwei Wu, Dingxing Wang
• Keywords: APPT 2003, Availability, Distributed And Parallel Programming, P2P Storage, Storage Systems