Intern
Lehrstuhl für Informatik III

Siemens Capi (funded by Siemens AG)

Carrier-Grade Peer-to-Peer


Research Project initiated and financed by

CaPi Project Team

Heads

Kurt Tutschku,

Phuoc Tran-Gia,

Frank-Uwe Andersen,

Franco Davoli

Researchers

Tobias Hoßfeld,

Simon Oechsner,

Luca Caviglione,

Marco Perrado


Summary

While applications utilizing Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technology enjoy a high success, they mostly offer services to the end user. However, the advantages offered by P2P, such as scalability, reliability and so on, make usage of P2P systems also attractive for implementing control functions in the core network of network operators. However, these applications require much higher performance and quality of service. In this project, we have investigated whether P2P systems can be made to fulfil these "carrier-grade" requirements. We have more clearly defined what these prerequisites are and have chosen exemplary fields of applications where the deployment of P2P technology would offer advantages. For these cases, we have developed architectures that retain the inherent advantages of P2P (such as being a serverless system without a central point of failure) but still yield a performance needed by the field of application. This has been verified by evaluating these algorithms through simulative studies.


Publications

  • Supporting Vertical Handover by Using a Pastry Peer-to-Peer Overlay Network. Zinner, Thomas. Euro-FGI Annual Plenary Meeting, Salerno, Italy, 2008, February 27.
  • Supporting Vertical Handover by a Self-Organizing Multi-Dimensional P2P Overlay. Hoßfeld, Tobias. VTC2006-Spring, Melbourne, Australia, 2006, May 9.
  • Verlässliche Peer-to-Peer Technologie als Steuerungsverfahren für zukünftige mobile Zugangsnetze. Andersen, Frank-Uwe; Tutschku, Kurt; Hoßfeld, Tobias; Oechsner, Simon. In 11. ITG-Mobilfunktagung, Technologien und Anwendungen, ISBN 3-8007-2942-3. Osnabrück, Germany, 2006.
  • Supporting Vertical Handover by a Self-Organizing Multi-Dimensional P2P Overlay. Oechsner, Simon; Hoßfeld, Tobias; Tutschku, Kurt; Andersen, Frank-Uwe. In 2006 IEEE 63rd Vehicular Technology Conference. Melbourne, Australia, 2006.
  • Evaluation of a Pastry-Based P2P Overlay for Supporting Vertical Handover. Oechsner, Simon. Wireless Communications and Networking Conference 2006, 2006, April 4.
  • Evaluation of a Pastry-based P2P Overlay for Supporting Vertical Handover. Hoßfeld, Tobias; Oechsner, Simon; Tutschku, Kurt; Andersen, Frank-Uwe. In IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, p. 6. Las Vegas, NV, USA, 2006.
  • Supporting Vertical Handover by Using a Pastry Peer-to-Peer Overlay Network. Hoßfeld, Tobias. Mobile Peer-to-Peer Computing MP2P’06, in conjunction with the 4th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom’06), Pisa, Italy, 2006, March 17.
  • Using Kademlia for the Configuration of B3G Radio Access Nodes. Oechsner, Simon. Mobile Peer-to-Peer Computing MP2P’06, Pisa, Italy, 2006, March 17.
  • Using Kademlia for the Configuration of B3G Radio Access Nodes. Oechsner, Simon; Hoßfeld, Tobias; Tutschku, Kurt; Andersen, Frank-Uwe; Caviglione, Luca. In Mobile Peer-to-Peer Computing MP2P’06, in conjunction with the 4th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom’06). Pisa, Italy, 2006.
  • Supporting Vertical Handover by Using a Pastry Peer-to-Peer Overlay Network. Hoßfeld, Tobias; Oechsner, Simon; Tutschku, Kurt; Andersen, Frank-Uwe; Caviglione, Luca. In Mobile Peer-to-Peer Computing MP2P’06, in conjunction with the 4th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom’06). Pisa, Italy, 2006.
  • Evaluation of a Pastry-based P2P Overlay for Supporting Vertical Handover. Technical Report (368), . Hoßfeld, Tobias; Oechsner, Simon; Tutschku, Kurt; Andersen, Frank-Uwe. University of Wuerzburg, 2005.
  • Using Kademlia for the Configuration of B3G Radio Access Nodes. Technical Report (370), . Oechsner, Simon; Hoßfeld, Tobias; Tutschku, Kurt; Andersen, Frank-Uwe; Caviglione, Luca. University of Wuerzburg, 2005.
  • Supporting Vertical Handover by Using a Pastry Peer-to-Peer Overlay Network. Technical Report (367), . Hoßfeld, Tobias; Oechsner, Simon; Tutschku, Kurt; Andersen, Frank-Uwe; Caviglione, Luca. University of Wuerzburg, 2005.