Supported by: Internal funds of the Johns Hopkins University, 2003–2005

Here, the goal is to develop scalable and robust peer-to-peer systems that are based on a reliable anchor. That is, a server is handling all join requests and maintaining the network topology, but all other functions are handled by the peers. Such systems can be seen as being between pure peer-to-peer systems and server-based systems.

Publications:

• K. Kothapalli and C. Scheideler.
  Supervised peer-to-peer systems.
  In Proc. Intl. Symp. on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Networks (I-SPAN), 2005.
• C. Riley and C. Scheideler.
  A distributed hash table for computational grids.
  In IEEE Intl. Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), 2004.
• C. Riley and C. Scheideler.
  Guaranteed broadcasting using SPON: Supervised P2P overlay network.
  In 2004 Intl. Zurich Seminar on Communications.