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High Availability in DHTs: Erasure Coding Vs. Replication

Overview High availability in peer-to-peer DHTs requires data redundancy. This paper compares two popular redundancy schemes: replication and erasure coding. Unlike previous comparisons, characteristics of the nodes are taken that comprise the overlay into account, and conclude that in some cases the benefits from coding are limited, and may not be worth its disadvantages.

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Publisher: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
File Format: PDF
Date Published: Jul 10, 2008
Format: White Papers
Topics: High Availability, Network Design

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