Chord: A Scalable Peer-to-peer Lookup Protocol for Internet Applications – Part I: Motivation and System overview

In the very first post on All Things Distributed, we will be reviewing the paper: Chord: A Scalable Peer-to-peer Lookup Protocol for Internet Applications available here. We will discuss the paper in segments and this edition covers the motivation behind Chord and provides a system overview. Introduction A fundamental problem that confronts peer-to-peer applications is

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