MOve: Design of An Application-Malleable Overlay

Peer-to-peer overlays allow distributed applications to work in a wide-area, scalable, and fault-tolerant manner. However, most structured and unstructured overlays present in literature today are inflexible from the application viewpoint. In other words, the application has no control over the structure of the overlay itself. This paper proposes the concept of an application-malleableoverlay, and the design of the first malleable overlay which we call MOve. In MOve, the communication characteristics of the distributed application using the overlay can influence the overlay’s structure itself, with the twin goals of (1) optimizing the application performance by adapting the overlay, while also (2) retaining the large scale and fault tolerance of the overlay approach. The influence could either be explicitly specified by the application or implicitly gleaned by our algorithms. Besides neighbor list membership management, MOve also contains algorithms for resource discovery, upda...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: SRDS
• Authors: Sébastien Monnet, Ramsés Morales, Gabriel Antoniu, Indranil Gupta
• Keywords: Keywords Peer-to-peer Overlay, Peer-to-peer Overlay, SRDS 2006, first Malleable Overlay