Topologically-Aware Overlay Construction and Server Selection

— A number of large-scale distributed Internet applications could potentially benefit from some level of knowledge about the relative proximity between its participating host nodes. For example, the performance of large overlay networks could be improved if the application-level connectivity between the nodes in these networks is congruent with the underlying IP-level topology. Similarly, in the case of replicated web content, client nodes could use topological information in selecting one of multiple available servers. For such applications, one need not find the optimal solution in order to achieve significant practical benefits. Thus, these applications, and presumably others like them, do not require exact topological information and can instead use sufficiently informative hints about the relative positions of Internet hosts. In this paper, we present a binning scheme whereby nodes partition themselves into bins such that nodes that fall within a given bin are relatively cl...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2002
• Where: INFOCOM
• Authors: Sylvia Ratnasamy, Mark Handley, Richard M. Karp, Scott Shenker
• Keywords: Binning Strategy, Communications, Host Nodes, INFOCOM 2002, Overlay Network