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TY - GEN
T1 - A generic self-repair approach for overlays
AU - Porter, Barry
AU - Coulson, Geoffrey
AU - Taiani, Francois
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Self-repair is a key area of functionality in overlay networks, especially as overlays become increasingly widely deployed and relied upon. Today's common practice is for each overlay to implement its own self-repair mechanism. However, apart from leading to duplication of effort, this practice inhibits choice and flexibility in selecting from among multiple self-repair mechanisms that make different deployment-specific trade-offs between dependability and overhead. In this paper, we present an approach in which overlay networks provide functional behaviour only, and rely for their self-repair on a generic self-repair service. In our previously-published work in this area, we have focused on the distributed algorithms encapsulated within our self-repair service. In this paper we focus instead on API and integration issues. In particular, we show how overlay implementations can interact with our generic self-repair service using a small and simple API. We concretise the discussion by illustrating the use of this API from within an implementation of the popular Chord overlay. This involves minimal changes to the implementation while considerably increasing its available range of self-repair strategies.
AB - Self-repair is a key area of functionality in overlay networks, especially as overlays become increasingly widely deployed and relied upon. Today's common practice is for each overlay to implement its own self-repair mechanism. However, apart from leading to duplication of effort, this practice inhibits choice and flexibility in selecting from among multiple self-repair mechanisms that make different deployment-specific trade-offs between dependability and overhead. In this paper, we present an approach in which overlay networks provide functional behaviour only, and rely for their self-repair on a generic self-repair service. In our previously-published work in this area, we have focused on the distributed algorithms encapsulated within our self-repair service. In this paper we focus instead on API and integration issues. In particular, we show how overlay implementations can interact with our generic self-repair service using a small and simple API. We concretise the discussion by illustrating the use of this API from within an implementation of the popular Chord overlay. This involves minimal changes to the implementation while considerably increasing its available range of self-repair strategies.
U2 - 10.1007/11915072_54
DO - 10.1007/11915072_54
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SN - 3-540-48273-3
VL - 4278
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
SP - 1490
EP - 1499
BT - On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: OTM 2006 Workshops, Pt 2, Proceedings
A2 - Meersman, R
A2 - Tari, Z
A2 - Herrero, P
PB - SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN
CY - BERLIN
T2 - On the Move Federated Workshops
Y2 - 29 October 2006 through 3 November 2006
ER -