Supervised Peer-to-Peer Systems

In this paper we present a general methodology for designing supervised peer-to-peer systems. A supervised peer-to-peer system is a system in which the overlay network is formed by a supervisor but in which all other activities can be performed on a peer-to-peer basis without involving the supervisor. It can therefore be seen as being between server-based systems and pure peer-to-peer systems. Though it appears that supervised peer-to-peer systems are limited in their scalability, we will argue that with our concept supervised peer-to-peer systems can scale to millions of peers without requiring the supervisor to be more powerful than just having a normal workstation with a 100 Mbit/s connection. In fact, the supervisor only has to store a constant amount of information about the system at any time and only needs to send a small constant number of messages to integrate or remove a peer in a constant amount of time. Thus, with a minimum amount of involvement from the supervisor, peer-t...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: ISPAN
• Authors: Kishore Kothapalli, Christian Scheideler
• Keywords: Distributed And Parallel Computing, ISPAN 2005, Peer-to-peer Systems, Supervised Peer-to-peer, Supervised Peer-to-peer Systems