Recent demands for storing and querying big data have revealed various shortcomings of
traditional relational database systems. This, in turn, has led to the emergence of a new kind …

Over the Internet today, computing and communications environments are significantly more
complex and chaotic than classical distributed systems, lacking any centralized organization …

A fundamental problem that confronts peer-to-peer applications is to efficiently locate the
node that stores a particular data item. This paper presents Chord, a distributed lookup …

This paper presents the design and evaluation of Pastry, a scalable, distributed object
location and routing substrate for wide-area peer-to-peer applications. Pastry performs …

We describe a peer-to-peer distributed hash table with provable consistency and
performance in a fault-prone environment. Our system routes queries and locates nodes …

Hash tables-which map" keys" onto" values"-are an essential building block in modern
software systems. We believe a similar functionality would be equally valuable to large …

A fundamental problem that confronts peer-to-peer applications is the efficient location of the
node that stores a desired data item. This paper presents Chord, a distributed lookup …

OceanStore is a utility infrastructure designed to span the globe and provide continuous
access to persistent information. Since this infrastructure is comprised of untrusted servers …

The delivery of video content is expected to gain huge momentum, fueled by the popularity
of user-generated clips, growth of VoD libraries, and wide-spread deployment of IPTV …

We present Tapestry, a peer-to-peer overlay routing infrastructure offering efficient, scalable,
location-independent routing of messages directly to nearby copies of an object or service …