[chord] ambiguity in Chord - Paper

Frank Dabek fdabek at MIT.EDU
Mon Dec 6 21:25:04 EST 2004


On Dec 6, 2004, at 8:21 PM, Anurag Phadke wrote:

> Hello,
> I am a Masters student at University of Southern California with great 
> interest in P2P video streaming. While reading your Chord paper, I was 
> not able to understand a couple of things:
> URL: http://merlot.usc.edu/cs551-f04/papers/Stoica01a.pdf
> From the Stoica01a.pdf, page 6, figure 5-b. The caption says, Finger 
> tables and key locations after node 3 leaves. However, the node 3 is 
> shown by a green circle and the successor columns for all finger 
> tables continue to show node 0,3 and 6, and node 1 no longer exists. 
> Is there a typo in the caption, 'node 3' in place of 'node 1' or I 
> need to read the paper again?

Yep. It's node 1 that leaves, not '3'. Thanks for catching the typo.

--Frank

>  
> Also if my above assumption is correct, then for the finger table 
> entry at node 0, shouldn't the first row last column have successor as 
> '3' and not '0'? Reasoning: In the interval [1,2) the nearest node is 
> # 3.   
>  
> Can you please clarify the above.
> Thanks.
> -Regards Anurag
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