Apparatus and method for establishing partnership with a peer-to-peer (P2P) service based on gossip

摘要

Provided is gossip-based peer-to-peer service apparatus and a method for quickly establishing a partnership. A first node that desires to join a service receives partial view information of a second node from the second view that is participating in the service. In response to receiving the partial view information from the second node, the first node extracts one or more candidate nodes to establish a partnership with, and engages the candidate nodes in a temporal partnership.

主权项

1. A gossip-based peer-to-peer (P2P) service apparatus comprising:
a membership list receipt device configured to receive a membership list from at least one service node from among a plurality of service nodes that provide a gossip-based P2P service, prior to the gossip-based P2P service apparatus joining the gossip-based P2P service, wherein the membership list comprises access information about partial view nodes of the at least one service node that are members of the gossip-based P2P service; and a temporal partnership request unit configured to select at least one partial view node from the received membership list, transmit a temporal partnership request message to the selected partial view node, and become partners with the at least one partial view node and a member of the gossip-based P2P service based on the access information and without performing a membership process that is based on a probability calculation.