In peer-to-peer systems, attrition attacks include both traditional, network-level denial of service attacks as well as application-level attacks in which malign peers conspire to waste loyal peers' resources. We describe several defenses for LOCKSS, a peer-to-peer digital preservation system, that help ensure that application-level attacks even from powerful adversaries are less effective than simple network-level attacks, and that network-level attacks must be intense, wide-spread, and prolonged to impair the system.
. Rate limits on peers joining a DHT have been suggested @cite_47 @cite_37 as a defense against attempts to control parts of the hash space, for example to control the placement of certain data objects or for misrouting. Limiting both joins and stores to empirically determined safe rates will also be needed to thwart the attrition adversary. At least for file sharing, studies @cite_24 have suggested that users' behavior may not be sensitive to latency. The increased storage latency that rate limits create is probably unimportant. XXX Matt Williamson's viral work XXX
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Distributed hash table (DHT) systems are an important class of peer-to-peer routing infrastructures. They enable scalable wide-area storage and retrieval of information, and will support the rapid development of a wide variety of Internet-scale applications ranging from naming systems and file systems to application-layer multicast. DHT systems essentially build an overlay network, but a path on the overlay between any two nodes can be significantly different from the unicast path between those two nodes on the underlying network. As such, the lookup latency in these systems can be quite high and can adversely impact the performance of applications built on top of such systems.In this paper, we discuss a random sampling technique that incrementally improves lookup latency in DHT systems. Our sampling can be implemented using information gleaned from lookups traversing the overlay network. For this reason, we call our approach lookup-parasitic random sampling (LPRS). LPRS is fast, incurs little network overhead, and requires relatively few modifications to existing DHT systems.For idealized versions of DHT systems like Chord, Tapestry and Pastry, we analytically prove that LPRS can result in lookup latencies proportional to the average unicast latency of the network, provided the underlying physical topology has a power-law latency expansion. We then validate this analysis by implementing LPRS in the Chord simulator. Our simulations reveal that LPRS-Chord exhibits a qualitatively better latency scaling behavior relative to unmodified Chord.Finally, we provide evidence which suggests that the Internet router-level topology resembles power-law latency expansion. This finding implies that LPRS has significant practical applicability as a general latency reduction technique for many DHT systems. This finding is also of independent interest since it might inform the design of latency-sensitive topology models for the Internet. A number of distributed hash table (DHT)-based protocols have been proposed to address the issue of scalability in peer-to-peer networks. In this paper, we present Ulysses, a peer-to-peer network based on the butterfly topology that achieves the theoretical lower bound of log n log log n on network diameter when the average routing table size at nodes is no more than log n. Compared to existing DHT-based schemes with similar routing table size, Ulysses reduces the network diameter by a factor of log log n, which is 2–4 for typical configurations. This translates into the same amount of reduction on query latency and average traffic per link node. In addition, Ulysses maintains the same level of robustness in terms of routing in the face of faults and recovering from graceful ungraceful joins and departures, as provided by existing DHT-based schemes. The performance of the protocol has been evaluated using both analysis and simulation. Copyright © 2004 AEI Large-scale distributed systems are hard to deploy, and distributed hash tables (DHTs) are no exception. To lower the barriers facing DHT-based applications, we have created a public DHT service called OpenDHT. Designing a DHT that can be widely shared, both among mutually untrusting clients and among a variety of applications, poses two distinct challenges. First, there must be adequate control over storage allocation so that greedy or malicious clients do not use more than their fair share. Second, the interface to the DHT should make it easy to write simple clients, yet be sufficiently general to meet a broad spectrum of application requirements. In this paper we describe our solutions to these design challenges. We also report our early deployment experience with OpenDHT and describe the variety of applications already using the system. During recent years, Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) have been extensively studied through simulation and analysis. However, due to their limited deployment, it has not been possible to observe the behavior of a widely-deployed DHT in practice. Recently, the popular eMule file-sharing software incorporated a Kademlia-based DHT, called Kad, which currently has around one million simultaneous users. In this paper, we empirically study the performance of the key DHT operation, lookup, over Kad. First, we analytically derive the benefits of different ways to increase the richness of routing tables in Kademlia-based DHTs. Second, we empirically characterize two aspects of the accuracy of routing tables in Kad, namely completeness and freshness, and characterize their impact on Kad’s lookup performance. Finally, we investigate how the efficiency and consistency of lookup in Kad can be improved by performing parallel lookup and maintaining multiple replicas, respectively. Our results pinpoint the best operating point for the degree of lookup parallelism and the degree of replication for Kad.