Evaluating DHT implementations in complex environments by network emulator

We propose an evaluation method of large-scale distributed hash tables by network emulator that allows us to evaluate not only DHT algorithms but also DHT implementations. Evaluating DHT implementations is important for DHT application developers since it influences how an application utilizes a DHT. We built a platform to support our method and evaluated four implementations with various scenarios. The evaluation results show that our method is useful for evaluating the performance of DHT implementations in practical and complex environments.