Principles of
Locality-Aware Networks for Locating Nearest Copies of Data
Abstract
Building overlay network tools for locating
information in a manner that exhibits locality-awareness is crucial for the
viability of large internets. It means that costs are proportional to the
actual distance of interacting parties, and in many cases, that load may be
contained locally. This paper presents a step-by-step decomposition of several
locality-aware networks, that support distributed content-based location
services. It explains their common
principles and their variations with simple and clear analysis.
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