Dynamic storage load balancing with analogy to thermal diffusion for P2P file sharing

Masato Uchida*, Kei Ohnishi, Kento Ichikawa

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This paper presents a file replication scheme with analogy to thermal diffusion for storage load balancing in unstructured peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing networks. The proposed scheme is intended to balance storage load among peers in a dynamic, distributed, and autonomous manner, as in thermal diffusion. Theoretical analysis results show that the presented scheme actually has a statistical analogy with a thermal diffusion equation. In addition, the proposed scheme includes parameters to widely explore the trade-off between storage load balancing and search performance existing in unstructured P2P file sharing networks. Simulation results show that compared to other replication schemes, the proposed scheme has better ability not only in balancing storage load among peers, which is the primary objective of the proposal, but also in widely exploring the performance trade-off.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings from the 2006 Workshop on Interdisciplinary Systems Approach in Performance Evaluation and Design of Computer and Communications Sytems
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2006
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameACM International Conference Proceeding Series
Volume200

Keywords

  • File replication
  • P2P file sharing
  • Storage load balancing
  • Thermal diffusion

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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