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VICINITY: A Pinch of Randomness Brings out the Structure

Spyros Voulgaris
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Maarten Van Steen
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Abstract

Overlay networks are central to the operation of large-scale decentralized applications, be it Internet-scale P2P systems deployed in the wild or cloud applications running in a controlled—albeit large-scale—environment. A number of custom solutions exist for individual applications, each employing a tailormade mechanism to build and maintain its specific structure. This paper addresses the role of randomness in developing and maintaining such structures. Taking Vicinity, a generic overlay management framework based on self-organization, we explore tradeoffs between deterministic and probabilistic decision-making for structuring overlays. We come to the conclusion that a pinch of randomness may even be needed in overlay construction, but also that much randomness or randomness alone is not good either.
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hal-01480790 , version 1 (01-03-2017)

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Spyros Voulgaris, Maarten Van Steen. VICINITY: A Pinch of Randomness Brings out the Structure. 14th International Middleware Conference (Middleware), Dec 2013, Beijing, China. pp.21-40, ⟨10.1007/978-3-642-45065-5_2⟩. ⟨hal-01480790⟩
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