On node isolation under churn in unstructured P2P networks with heavy-tailed lifetimes Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • Previous analytical studies [12], [18] of unstructured P2P resilience have assumed exponential user lifetimes and only considered age-independent neighbor replacement In this paper, we overcome these limitations by introducing a general node-isolation model for heavy-tailed user lifetimes and arbitrary neighbor-selection algorithms. Using this model, we analyze two age-biased neighbor-selection strategies and show that they significantly improve the residual lifetimes of chosen users, which dramatically reduces the probability of user isolation and graph partitioning compared to uniform selection of neighbors. In fact, the second strategy based on random walks on age-weighted graphs demonstrates that for lifetimes with infinite variance, the system monotonically increases its resilience as its age and size grow. Specifically, we show that the probability of isolation converges to zero as these two metrics tend to infinity. We finish the paper with simulations in finite-size graphs that demonstrate the effect of this result in practice. 2007 IEEE.

name of conference

  • IEEE INFOCOM 2007 - 26th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications

published proceedings

  • INFOCOM 2007, VOLS 1-5

author list (cited authors)

  • Yao, Z., Wang, X., Leonard, D., & Loguinov, D.

citation count

  • 9

complete list of authors

  • Yao, Zhongmei||Wang, Xiaoming||Leonard, Derek||Loguinov, Dmitri

publication date

  • January 2007