Locality-awareness in a peer-to-peer publish/subscribe network

Abstract

Peer-to-peer publish/subscribe systems are promising solutions to provide distributed content distribution services at Internet-scale with low cost. One of the potential problems with peer-to-peer overlays, however, is the inefficient traffic and large delays, due to the mismatch between the physical network and the overlay topology. This paper introduces a locality-aware extension to a peer-to-peer publish/subscribe system, named Vitis. The ultimate purpose is to avoid communications over long-distance links, instead, nodes send data over short-distance and low-cost links, when possible, while maintaining an acceptable quality of service. We show, through simulations, that the average data delivery time is up to 40% improved. The cost to pay is at most 10% more relaying in the peer-to-peer overlay. © 2012 IFIP International Federation for Information Processing.