Title
Building a collaborative peer-to-peer wiki system on a structured overlay
Abstract
The ever growing request for digital information raises the need for content distribution architectures providing high storage capacity, data availability and good performance. While many simple solutions for scalable distribution of quasi-static content exist, there are still no approaches that can ensure both scalability and consistency for the case of highly dynamic content, such as the data managed inside wikis. We propose a peer-to-peer solution for distributing and managing dynamic content, that combines two widely studied technologies: Distributed Hash Tables (DHT) and optimistic replication. In our ''universal wiki'' engine architecture (UniWiki), on top of a reliable, inexpensive and consistent DHT-based storage, any number of front-ends can be added, ensuring both read and write scalability, as well as suitability for large-scale scenarios. The implementation is based on Damon, a distributed AOP middleware, thus separating distribution, replication, and consistency responsibilities, and also making our system transparently usable by third party wiki engines. Finally, UniWiki has been proved viable and fairly efficient in large-scale scenarios.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1016/j.comnet.2010.03.019
Computer Networks
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Collaborative editing,Peer-to-peer,Distributed interception,Optimistic replication
Journal
54
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
12
Computer Networks
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.50
28
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gérald Oster132922.31
Rubén Mondéjar212912.02
Pascal Molli367058.93
Sergiu Dumitriu4162.88