Hari Balakrishnan, Scott Shenker, Michael Walfish
4th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS '05), Ithaca, NY, February 2005
The early peer-to-peer applications eschewed commercial arrangements and
instead established a grass-roots model in which the collection of
end-users provided their own distributed computational infrastructure.
While this cooperative end-user approach works well in many application
settings, it does not provide a sufficiently stable platform for certain
peer-to-peer applications (e.g., DHTs as a building block for network
services). Assuming such a stable platform isn't freely provided by a
benefactor (such as NSF), we must ask whether DHTs could be deployed in a
competitive commercial environment. The key issue is whether a
multiplicity of DHT services can coordinate to provide a single coherent
DHT service, much the way ISPs peer to provide a completely connected
Internet. In this paper, we describe various approaches for DHT peering
and discuss some of the related performance and incentive issues.
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Bibtex Entry:
@inproceedings{balakrishnan2005peering,
author = "Hari Balakrishnan and Scott Shenker and Michael Walfish",
title = "{Peering Peer-to-Peer Providers}",
booktitle = {4th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS '05)},
year = {2005},
month = {February},
address = {Ithaca, NY}
}