Routing Performance in Hierarchical DHT-based Overlay Networks

The scalability properties of DHT based overlay networks is considered satisfactory. However, in large scale systems this might still cause a problem since they have a logarithmic complexity depending. Further, they only provide a one dimensional structure and do not make use on inherent clustering properties of some applications (e.g. P2PVoIP or locality aware overlays). Thus, structures based on a hierarchical approach can have performance as well as structural advantages. In this paper, a generic hierarchical architecture based on super-peers is presented where a peer ID is composed by a Prefix ID and a Suffix ID. Prefix ID is only routed at the super-peer level and the Suffix ID at the peer level. We specifically analyse the Routing Performance of this approach within the context of two specific overlays, viz. CAN and Kademlia.This work has been partially supported by the European Union under the IST Content NoE (FP6-2006-IST-038423) and by the BioGridNet project (CAM, S-0505/TIC-0101).Publicad