P-Skip graph: An efficient data structure for peer-to-peer network

Abstract

Peer-to-peer networks display interesting characteristics of fast queries, updation, deletion, fault-tolerance etc., while lacking any central authority. Adjacency Matrix, Skip-Webs, Skip-Nets, Skip-List, Distributed Hash Table, and many more data structures form the candidature for peer-to-peer networks, of which, Skip-Graph (evolved version of skip-list) displays one of the best characteristics as it help to search and locate a node in a peer-to-peer network efficiently with time complexity being O(log n). However when a hotspot node is searched and queried again and again, the Skip-Graph does not learn or adapt to the situation and still searches traditionally with O(log n) complexity. In this paper we propose a new data structure P-skip graph, a modified version of Skip graph, which reduces the search time of a hot spot node drastically from initial time of O(log n). Results provided by Simulations of a skip graph-based Peer-to-Peer application demonstrate that the proposed approach can in fact effectively decrease the search time to O(1).