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Peer-to-Peer Communication Trade-Offs for Smart Grid Applications
Virtual topologies in peer-to-peer networks can reduce the traffic consumed
by altering the logical connectivity of peers without altering the underlying
network. However, such sparsely connected virtual topologies do not focus on
the needs for smart grid applications, which is information dissemination
throughout the network, and in turn degrade the performance of distributed
control algorithms running on peer-to-peer networks. This paper provides a
flexible solution for application developers to prototype and deploy different
virtual topologies that balances these trade-offs. First, it introduces a
configurable virtual communication topology framework, TopLinkMgr, which
enables users to specify any chosen connectivity configuration and deploy
peer-to-peer applications using it. Second, it proposes a novel fault-tolerant
self-adaptive virtual topology management algorithm, Bounded Path
Dissemination, that can ensure the dissemination of information to all peers
within a specified threshold. Experiments show that the algorithm improves on
convergence speed and accuracy over state-of-the-art methods and is also robust
against node failures while consuming significantly less communication
bandwidth.Comment: 10 pages, 6 figure