Can the Inter Planetary File System Become an Alternative to Centralized Architectures?

Diogo Oliveira; Mohamed Rahouti; Adrian Jaesim; Nazli Siasi; Leslie Ko

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-85540-6_75

Can the Inter Planetary File System Become an Alternative to Centralized Architectures?

Diogo Oliveira, Mohamed Rahouti, Adrian Jaesim, Nazli Siasi, Leslie Ko

Penn State Beaver

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

1 Scopus citations

Abstract

The Inter Planetary File System is a decentralized storage network based on peer-to-peer communication and strives to become an alternative to centralized standards such as HTTP. However, there is a pressing need in analyzing the performance of the former compared to the latter. Therefore, this paper deploys a testbed scenario to compare physical resources’ usage and transmission delay between IPFS, IPFS Cluster and threaded and non-threaded HTTP. Results show that although HTTP currently delivers higher throughput, its centralized approach can overwhelm servers and IPFS can leverage its decentralized architecture mostly for large-scale scenarios. Moreover, results also empirically show that IPFS’ content addressing resolution poses a serious challenge and should be addressed by its developers.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Human Interaction, Emerging Technologies and Future Systems V - Proceedings of the 5th International Virtual Conference on Human Interaction and Emerging Technologies, IHIET 2021 and the 6th IHIET
Subtitle of host publication	Future Systems IHIET-FS 2021
Editors	Tareq Ahram, Redha Taiar
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages	597-604
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	9783030855390
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85540-6_75
State	Published - 2022
Event	5th International Virtual Conference on Human Interaction and Emerging Technologies, IHIET 2021 and 6th International Conference on Human Interaction and Emerging Technologies: Future Systems, IHIET-FS 2021 - Virtual, Online Duration: Aug 27 2021 → Aug 29 2021

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
Volume	319
ISSN (Print)	2367-3370
ISSN (Electronic)	2367-3389

Conference

Conference	5th International Virtual Conference on Human Interaction and Emerging Technologies, IHIET 2021 and 6th International Conference on Human Interaction and Emerging Technologies: Future Systems, IHIET-FS 2021
City	Virtual, Online
Period	8/27/21 → 8/29/21

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Control and Systems Engineering
Signal Processing
Computer Networks and Communications

Access to Document

10.1007/978-3-030-85540-6_75

Cite this

Oliveira, D., Rahouti, M., Jaesim, A., Siasi, N., & Ko, L. (2022). Can the Inter Planetary File System Become an Alternative to Centralized Architectures? In T. Ahram, & R. Taiar (Eds.), Human Interaction, Emerging Technologies and Future Systems V - Proceedings of the 5th International Virtual Conference on Human Interaction and Emerging Technologies, IHIET 2021 and the 6th IHIET: Future Systems IHIET-FS 2021 (pp. 597-604). (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems; Vol. 319). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85540-6_75

Oliveira, Diogo ; Rahouti, Mohamed ; Jaesim, Adrian et al. / Can the Inter Planetary File System Become an Alternative to Centralized Architectures?. Human Interaction, Emerging Technologies and Future Systems V - Proceedings of the 5th International Virtual Conference on Human Interaction and Emerging Technologies, IHIET 2021 and the 6th IHIET: Future Systems IHIET-FS 2021. editor / Tareq Ahram ; Redha Taiar. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2022. pp. 597-604 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems).

@inproceedings{1262862d284848c3a04f3df971d93da1,

title = "Can the Inter Planetary File System Become an Alternative to Centralized Architectures?",

abstract = "The Inter Planetary File System is a decentralized storage network based on peer-to-peer communication and strives to become an alternative to centralized standards such as HTTP. However, there is a pressing need in analyzing the performance of the former compared to the latter. Therefore, this paper deploys a testbed scenario to compare physical resources{\textquoteright} usage and transmission delay between IPFS, IPFS Cluster and threaded and non-threaded HTTP. Results show that although HTTP currently delivers higher throughput, its centralized approach can overwhelm servers and IPFS can leverage its decentralized architecture mostly for large-scale scenarios. Moreover, results also empirically show that IPFS{\textquoteright} content addressing resolution poses a serious challenge and should be addressed by its developers.",

author = "Diogo Oliveira and Mohamed Rahouti and Adrian Jaesim and Nazli Siasi and Leslie Ko",

note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.; 5th International Virtual Conference on Human Interaction and Emerging Technologies, IHIET 2021 and 6th International Conference on Human Interaction and Emerging Technologies: Future Systems, IHIET-FS 2021 ; Conference date: 27-08-2021 Through 29-08-2021",

year = "2022",

doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-85540-6_75",

language = "English (US)",

isbn = "9783030855390",

series = "Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems",

publisher = "Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH",

pages = "597--604",

editor = "Tareq Ahram and Redha Taiar",

booktitle = "Human Interaction, Emerging Technologies and Future Systems V - Proceedings of the 5th International Virtual Conference on Human Interaction and Emerging Technologies, IHIET 2021 and the 6th IHIET",

address = "Germany",

}

Oliveira, D, Rahouti, M, Jaesim, A, Siasi, N & Ko, L 2022, Can the Inter Planetary File System Become an Alternative to Centralized Architectures? in T Ahram & R Taiar (eds), Human Interaction, Emerging Technologies and Future Systems V - Proceedings of the 5th International Virtual Conference on Human Interaction and Emerging Technologies, IHIET 2021 and the 6th IHIET: Future Systems IHIET-FS 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol. 319, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, pp. 597-604, 5th International Virtual Conference on Human Interaction and Emerging Technologies, IHIET 2021 and 6th International Conference on Human Interaction and Emerging Technologies: Future Systems, IHIET-FS 2021, Virtual, Online, 8/27/21. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85540-6_75

Can the Inter Planetary File System Become an Alternative to Centralized Architectures? / Oliveira, Diogo; Rahouti, Mohamed; Jaesim, Adrian et al.
Human Interaction, Emerging Technologies and Future Systems V - Proceedings of the 5th International Virtual Conference on Human Interaction and Emerging Technologies, IHIET 2021 and the 6th IHIET: Future Systems IHIET-FS 2021. ed. / Tareq Ahram; Redha Taiar. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2022. p. 597-604 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems; Vol. 319).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution