Performance evaluation of Recursive Distributed Rendezvous based service discovery for Peer-to-Peer Session Initiation Protocol

Recursive Distributed Rendezvous (ReDiR) is a service discovery mechanism for Distributed Hash Table (DHT) based Peer-to-Peer (P2P) overlay networks. One of the major P2P systems that has adopted ReDiR is Peer-to-Peer Session Initiation Protocol (P2PSIP), which is a distributed communication system being standardized in the P2PSIP working group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). In a P2PSIP overlay, ReDiR can be used for instance to discover Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN) relay servers needed by P2PSIP nodes located behind a Network Address Translator (NAT). In this paper, we study the performance of ReDiR in a P2PSIP overlay network. We focus on metrics such as service lookup and registration delays, failure rate, traffic load, and ReDiR’s ability to balance load between service providers and between nodes storing information about service providers. 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.