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Dependable Peer-to-Peer Systems Withstanding Dynamic Adversarial Churn

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The most essential difference between classical distributed data structures and peer-to-peer systems is the dynamic behavior of the latter. Unlike traditional systems which consist of a fixed set of machines of which a few might occasionally fail in some way, peer-to-peer systems are characterized by continuous joins and leaves at a high rate (called churn). We address this dynamism in two ways. We present a general information aggregation method which can be used to implement deterministic join and leave protocols which keep the network in a well-balanced state. We also use the information aggregation algorithm together with a primitive called token distribution to obtain a general way of constructing efficient peer-to-peer systems which are resilient to dynamic, adversarial joins and leaves. In each time step, an adversary is allowed to insert and delete a bounded number of arbitrary peers. The system adapts to this churn by rearranging peers or adjusting the topology whenever necessary.

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    Keno Albrecht, Fabian Kuhn & Roger Wattenhofer

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Albrecht, K., Kuhn, F., Wattenhofer, R. (2006). Dependable Peer-to-Peer Systems Withstanding Dynamic Adversarial Churn. In: Kohlas, J., Meyer, B., Schiper, A. (eds) Dependable Systems: Software, Computing, Networks. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4028. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11808107_13

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