Chord: A Scalable Peer-to-peer Lookup Service

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Year: 2001  ·  Venue: ACM SIGCOMM  ·  Authors: Ion Stoica, Robert Morris, David Karger, et al.

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Abstract

Consistent hashing on a ring: O(log N) lookup with no central authority. The DHT abstraction behind everything from BitTorrent trackers to Dynamo-style storage.

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