Algorithm and direction for analysis of Global Replica Management in P2P network

Abstract

In the past decade, peer-to-peer (P2P) applications have made the main part of the Internet traffic. Data replication is generally used to improve the data availability, reduce data access delay and network traffic. Global Replica Management (GRM) is the method to preserve the replica consistent all through the network which is much required in major email, file hosting servers and in collaborative work environments. But GRM is not encouraging for many internet applications, since it increases the network traffic because of large number of message exchanges. In this paper, we have developed a comprehensive pseudo-code based algorithm for GRM in a tree structured P2P network. We have also discussed about the direction for performance analysis methodology for the algorithm to pave the way to justify its effectiveness.