[chord] Chord and SIP

[Emil Sit]

On Wed, 26 January 2005 at 16:50 (+0000), Johnston, Alan wrote:
> maintaining a small finger table.  This sounds the opposite of your
> implementation.  Also, they report very long search latency (perhaps due
> to exactly this limitation).  

We maintain the "correct" size finger table.  However, we've 
implemented a number of techniques that decrease our routing
(search) latency.

> However, since UDP does not have any built in congestion control, if you
> stay with UDP you will need to implement this at the application layer.

Indeed, we have built a congestion control layer into our application.

Both these aspects are described in our NSDI 2004 paper.

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