Boston - July 2018
Description
The early 2000's saw several research groups look into distributed hash tables as a decentralized way to structure a distributed system. In this talk, I'll briefly describe some of the history behind DHTs, and look at one of them in particular: Pastry, which takes into account how close or far apart nodes are from each other when constructing the peer-to-peer overlay network. We'll also look at Scribe, which implements anycast/multicast messaging on top of the Pastry overlay network.
Papers
- A. Rowstron and P. Druschel, "Pastry: Scalable, distributed object location and routing for large-scale peer-to-peer systems". IFIP/ACM International Conference on Distributed Systems Platforms (Middleware), Heidelberg, Germany, pages 329-350, November, 2001.
- A. Rowstron, A-M. Kermarrec, M. Castro and P. Druschel, "SCRIBE: The design of a large-scale event notification infrastructure", NGC2001, UCL, London, November 2001.
- http://www.freepastry.org/pubs.htm