[chord] Analyze Chord in Planetlab?

[Emil Sit]

On Mon, 23 October 2006 at 21:05 (+0900), Hai Dao Le wrote:
> 1.    Firstly, I need to modify some parameters of Chord. I think with
> the current number of nodes in Planetlab, successor list and predecessor
> list of 16 seems too large. How can I reduce those numbers (about 2 or
> 3)? 

You can set a configuration file.  e.g.,

    $ echo "chord.nsucc 3" > test.conf
    $ .../lsd -O test.conf [...]

> 2.    Where can I find the source code of maintaining the finger table
> and those above lists?

In the chord/ sub directory.

> 3.    How much different between the original Chord (described in the
> paper "Chord: A Scalable Peer-to-peer ...") and the recent Chord that
> deployed in Planetlab? 

See our NSDI paper from 2004 for more details.

-- 
Emil Sit / MIT CSAIL PDOS / http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/chord/