On the Topology Maintenance of Dynamic P2P Overlays through Self-Healing Local Interactions

This paper deals with the use of self-organizing protocols to improve the reliability of dynamic Peer-to-Peer (P2P) overlay networks. We present two approaches, that employ local knowledge of the 2nd neighborhood of nodes. The first scheme is a simple protocol requiring interactions among nodes and their direct neighbors. The second scheme extends this approach by resorting to the Edge Clustering Coefficient (ECC), a local measure that allows to identify those edges that connect different clusters in an overlay. A simulation assessment is presented, which evaluates these protocols over uniform networks, clustered networks and scale-free networks. Different failure modes are considered. Results demonstrate the viability of the proposal.Comment: A revised version of the paper appears in Proc. of the IFIP Networking 2014 Conference, IEEE, Trondheim, (Norway), June 201

Self-Healing Protocols for Connectivity Maintenance in Unstructured Overlays

In this paper, we discuss on the use of self-organizing protocols to improve the reliability of dynamic Peer-to-Peer (P2P) overlay networks. Two similar approaches are studied, which are based on local knowledge of the nodes' 2nd neighborhood. The first scheme is a simple protocol requiring interactions among nodes and their direct neighbors. The second scheme adds a check on the Edge Clustering Coefficient (ECC), a local measure that allows determining edges connecting different clusters in the network. The performed simulation assessment evaluates these protocols over uniform networks, clustered networks and scale-free networks. Different failure modes are considered. Results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposal.Comment: The paper has been accepted to the journal Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications. The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12083-015-0384-

Resilience of Dynamic Overlays through Local Interactions

This paper presents a self-organizing protocol for dynamic (unstructured P2P) overlay networks, which allows to react to the variability of node arrivals and departures. Through local interactions, the protocol avoids that the departure of nodes causes a partitioning of the overlay. We show that it is sufficient to have knowledge about 1st and 2nd neighbours, plus a simple interaction P2P protocol, to make unstructured networks resilient to node faults. A simulation assessment over different kinds of overlay networks demonstrates the viability of the proposal

Resilience of dynamic overlays through local interactions

This paper presents a self-organizing protocol for dynamic (unstructured P2P) overlay networks, which allows to react to the variability of node arrivals and departures. Through local interactions, the protocol avoids that the departure of nodes causes a partitioning of the overlay. We show that it is sufficient to have knowledge about 1st and 2nd neighbours, plus a simple interaction P2P protocol, to make unstructured networks resilient to node faults. A simulation assessment over different kinds of overlay networks demonstrates the viability of the proposal