Research Article
Dynamic storage load balancing with analogy to thermal diffusion for P2P file sharing
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1145/1190326.1190332, author={Masato Uchida and Kei Ohnishi and Kento Ichikawa}, title={Dynamic storage load balancing with analogy to thermal diffusion for P2P file sharing}, proceedings={1st International ICST Workshop on interdisciplinary systems approach in performance evaluation and design of computer \& communications systems}, publisher={ACM}, proceedings_a={INTER-PERF}, year={2012}, month={4}, keywords={P2P file sharing file replication storage load balancing thermal diffusion}, doi={10.1145/1190326.1190332} }- Masato Uchida
Kei Ohnishi
Kento Ichikawa
Year: 2012
Dynamic storage load balancing with analogy to thermal diffusion for P2P file sharing
INTER-PERF
ACM
DOI: 10.1145/1190326.1190332
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.