[p2p-hackers] DHTs in highly-transient networks

[Michael Rogers]

Sean Rhea wrote:
> In the Bamboo USENIX paper, we talked about the average time a node  was 
> connected to the network before disconnecting.  Bamboo and Chord  are 
> definitely resilient (at a routing level) even when that period  is a 
> short as a few minutes:

To what extent does this depend on the distribution of session times as 
well as the mean? Kademlia assumes that old nodes will outlive new 
nodes, and Daniel's paper shows that Gnutella contains an emergent core 
of long-lived nodes - how well do Bamboo and Chord survive under 
non-uniform churn?

Cheers,
Michael