November 4, 2021

Topic of the day

• Content-Addressable Network

Online reference

• Ratnasamy et al, "A scalable content-addressable network", 2001 (www.eecs.berkeley.edu)

Questions and exercises

1. What exactly is an "address" in a CAN? How will that address be used to get and put data into this distributed database?
2. How is the "routing" in the (application-layer) CAN system related to the routing of the (network-layer) IP protocol it is built on top of?
3. What mechanisms does this CAN system have to prevent/limit loss of data?
4. What mechanisms does this CAN system have to prevent/limit any node in the network from getting too overloaded with data, requests, or routing work?

Assignments

Today

• Project 2: Content-addressable networks out

Upcoming

• Project 2: Content-addressable networks design due (09 Nov)

Link from class

• Class video