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A scalable content-addressable network
Abstract
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
- ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
- Published
- 2001-08-27
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 161-172
- ISSN
- 0146-4833 (ISSN-L)
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- W3162105941
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- 95.59
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- journal article
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- en
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- closed
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