Issue No. 08 - August (2008 vol. 19)
ISSN: 1045-9219
pp: 1099-1110
ABSTRACT
Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks often demand scalability, low communication latency among nodes, and low system-wide overhead. For scalability, a node maintains partial states of a P2P network and connects to a few nodes. For fast communication, a P2P network intends to reduce the communication latency between any two nodes as much as possible. With regard to a low system-wide overhead, a P2P network minimizes its traffic in maintaining its performance efficiency and functional correctness. In this paper, we present a novel tree-based P2P network with low communication delay and low system-wide overhead. The merits of our tree-based network include: $(i)$ a tree-shaped P2P network which guarantees that the degree of a node is constant in probability regardless of the system size. The network diameter in our tree-based network increases logarithmically with an increase of the system size. Specially, given a physical network with a power-law latency expansion property, we show that the diameter of our tree network is constant. $(ii)$ Our proposal has the provable performance guarantees. We evaluate our proposal by rigorous performance analysis, and validate by extensive simulations.
INDEX TERMS
Distributed networks, Distributed Systems, Multicast
CITATION

H. Hsiao and C. He, "A Tree-Based Peer-to-Peer Network with Quality Guarantees," in IEEE Transactions on Parallel & Distributed Systems, vol. 19, no. , pp. 1099-1110, 2007.
doi:10.1109/TPDS.2007.70798