A Practical Approach to Network Size Estimation for Structured Overlays

• Structured overlay networks have recently received much attention due to their self-* properties under dynamic and decentralized settings. The number of nodes in all overlay fluctuates all the time due to churn. Since knowledge of the size of the. overlay is a core requirement for many systems, estimating the size in a decentralized manner is a challenge taken up by recent research activities. Gossip-based Aggregation has been shown to give accurate estimates for the network size, but previous work done is highly sensitive to node failures. In this paper, we present a gossip-based aggregation-style network size estimation algorithm. We discuss shortcomings of existing aggregation-based size estimation algorithms, and give a solution that is highly robust to node failures and is adaptive to network delays. We examine our solution in various scenarios to demonstrate. its effectiveness.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Datavetenskap (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Computer Sciences (hsv//eng)

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Cybernetics

Distributed computer systems

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Computer science

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