Publications related to Kademlia

Altruism, reciprocity, and tokens to reward forwarding data: Is that fair?

Verónica del Carmen Estrada Galiñanes, Arman Babaei

Decentralized storage networks offer services with intriguing possibilities to reduce inequalities in an extremely centralized market. Fair distribution of rewards, however, is still a persistent problem in the current generation of decentralized applicati ...

2024

The Universal Gossip Fighter

Rachid Guerraoui, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Anastasiia Kucherenko, Rafaël Benjamin Pinot

The notion of adversary is a staple of distributed computing. An adversary typically models “hostile” assumptions about the underlying distributed environment, e.g., a network that can drop messages, an operating system that can delay processes or an attac ...

IEEE2022

Rethinking General-Purpose Decentralized Computing

Bryan Alexander Ford, Eleftherios Kokoris Kogias, Georgia Fragkouli, Enis Ceyhun Alp

While showing great promise, smart contracts are difficult to program correctly, as they need a deep understanding of cryptography and distributed algorithms, and offer limited functionality, as they have to be deterministic and cannot operate on secret da ...

Association for Computing Machinery2019

Privacy failure in the public-key distance-bounding protocols

Serge Vaudenay

Public-key distance bounding protocols are well suited to defeat relay attacks in proximity access control systems when the author assume no prior shared key. At AsiaCCS 2014, Gambs, Onete, and Robert designed such a protocol with privacy protection for th ...

Inst Engineering Technology-Iet2016

A Note on a Privacy-Preserving Distance-Bounding Protocol

Aikaterini Mitrokotsa, Jean-Philippe Aumasson

Distance bounding protocols enable a device to establish an upper bound on the physical distance to a communication partner so as to prevent location spoofing, as exploited by relay attacks. Recently, Rasmussen and Cˇapkun (ACM-CCS’08) observed that these ...

Springer2011

Slicing Distributed Systems

Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Vincent Gramoli

Peer-to-peer (P2P) architectures are popular for tasks such as collaborative download, VoIP telephony, and backup. To maximize performance in the face of widely variable storage capacities and bandwidths, such systems typically need to shift work from poor ...

2009

LSH At Large - Distributed KNN Search in High Dimensions

Karl Aberer, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Sebastian Michel, Parisa Haghani

We consider K-Nearest Neighbor search for high dimensional data in large-scale structured Peer-to-Peer networks. We present an efficient mapping scheme based on p-stable Locality Sensitive Hashing to assign hash buckets to peers in a Chord-style overlay ne ...

2008

Sharing of probabilistically correlated data in peer-to-peer networks

Roman Schmidt

The impact of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks on the Internet landscape is undisputed. It has led to a series of new applications, e.g., as part of the so-called Web 2.0. The shift from the classical client-server based paradigm of the Internet, with a clear d ...

EPFL2008

Message Passing in Semantic Peer-to-Peer Overlay Networks

Karl Aberer, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems rely on machine-to-machine ad-hoc communications to offer services to a community. Contrary to the classical client-server architecture, P2P systems consider all peers, i.e., all nodes participating in the network, as being equal ...

2007

Congestion Control for Distributed Hash Tables

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Karl Aberer, Fabius Klemm

Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) provide a scalable mechanism for mapping identifiers to socket addresses. As each peer in the network can initiate lookup requests, a DHT has to process concurrently a potentially very large number of requests. In this paper, ...

IEEE2006

Oscar: Small-world overlay for realistic key distributions

Karl Aberer, Anwitaman Datta, Sarunas Girdzijauskas

The research on P2P systems which support skewed key distributions has rapidly advanced in the recent years. Yet, the assumptions on the skews we are dealing with remained pretty simple: most of the existing literature assumes simple monotonous key distrib ...

2006

GosSkip, an Efficient, Fault-Tolerant and Self Organizing Overlay Using Gossip-based Construction and Skip-Lists principles

Rachid Guerraoui, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Sidath Handurukande, Kévin Clément Huguenin

This paper presents GosSkip, a self organizing and fully distributed overlay that provides a scalable support to data storage and retrieval in dynamic environments. The structure of GosSkip, while initially possibly chaotic, eventually matches a perfect se ...

2006

Peer-to-Peer Applications Beyond File Sharing: Overlay Network Requirements and Solutions

In this paper we analyze the functional and non-functional requirements of peer-to-peer (P2P) systems that go beyond the needs of the well explored file-sharing P2P systems. Four basic subcategories are suggested to classify the non-functional requirements ...

2006

Aggregation of a Term Vocabulary for Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval: a DHT Stress Test

Karl Aberer, Fabius Klemm

There has been an increasing research interest in developing full-text retrieval based on peer-to-peer (P2P) technology. So far, these research efforts have largely concentrated on efficiently distributing an index. However, ranking of the results retrieve ...

2005