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A scalable content-addressable network

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Ratnasamy, Sylvia, Francis, Paul, Handley, Mark, Karp, Richard, Shenker, Scott·2001·Proceedings of the 2001 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications

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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 distributed systems. In this paper, we introduce the concept of a Content-Addressable Network (CAN) as a distributed infrastructure that provides hash table-like functionality on Internet-like scales. The CAN is scalable, fault-tolerant and completely self-organizing, and we demonstrate its scalability, robustness and low-latency properties through simulation.

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Authors
Ratnasamy, S., Francis, P., Handley, M., Karp, R., & Shenker, S.
Venue
Proceedings of the 2001 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Publisher
ACM
Published
2001-08-27
Pages
161-172
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conference paper
Language
en
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Ratnasamy, S., Francis, P., Handley, M., Karp, R., & Shenker, S. (2001). A scalable content-addressable network. Proceedings of the 2001 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications. https://doi.org/10.1145/383059.383072

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