Abstract

Structured Peer-to-Peer (P2P) overlay networks are scalable and efficient networks. This efficiency comes at a cost as there is a need for regular maintenance of an overlay structure to handle the continuous churn of peers. This results in huge overhead in terms of maintenance traffic generated by peers. This problem becomes more critical when logical overlay topology differs from actual physical network topology, a common phenomenon in P2P overlay networks. In this paper, we present a novel approach to designing a Distributed Hash Table (DHT) based P2P overlays with the help of Software Defined Networks (SDN) concepts. SDN is an upcoming technology that provides enough flexibility in deciding application-specific network policies and rules dynamically. In our approach, we have attempted to bring the overlay topology closer to actual physical topology and reduce the maintenance traffic as much as possible. We have also tested our work on a hybrid network consisting of both virtual and physical switches. The experimental results suggest and establish the applicability of our approach.

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