SMBR: A novel NAT traversal mechanism for structured peer-to-peer communications

Pinggai Yang; Jun Li; Jun Zhang; Hai Jiang; Yi Sun; Eryk Dutkiewicz

doi:10.1109/ISCC.2010.5546719

SMBR: A novel NAT traversal mechanism for structured peer-to-peer communications

Pinggai Yang^*, Jun Li, Jun Zhang, Hai Jiang, Yi Sun, Eryk Dutkiewicz

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School of Engineering

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Abstract

In recent years, structured P2P communications is being widely used for its features of self-organization as well as good scalability and flexibility. To make sure that every node can participate in such a network whether it is behind a NAT or not, we must solve the NAT traversal problem. However, existing NAT traversal methods all need the support of a centralized server which will destroy the distributive characteristic of structured P2P. In this paper, we propose a distributed NAT traversal mechanism called SMBR (Selective-Message Buddy Relaying) for structured P2P. SMBR has two main advantages. The first one is that it does not need the support of a server and thus can maintain the characteristics of structured P2P. Secondly, SMBR uses different mechanisms for the control messages and data according to their size. For control messages, it uses the method of buddy's relay while for data direct connections can be built with the help of the buddy. Using this mechanism, SMBR can achieve a balance between the traversal time and the buddies' load.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, ISCC 2010
Place of Publication	Piscataway, NJ
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages	535-539
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Print)	9781424477555
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCC.2010.5546719
Publication status	Published - 2010
Event	15th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, ISCC 2010 - Riccione, Italy Duration: 22 Jun 2010 → 25 Jun 2010

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Other	15th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, ISCC 2010
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Riccione
Period	22/06/10 → 25/06/10

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Yang, P, Li, J, Zhang, J, Jiang, H, Sun, Y & Dutkiewicz, E 2010, SMBR: A novel NAT traversal mechanism for structured peer-to-peer communications. in IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, ISCC 2010., 5546719, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Piscataway, NJ, pp. 535-539, 15th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, ISCC 2010, Riccione, Italy, 22/06/10. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCC.2010.5546719

SMBR : A novel NAT traversal mechanism for structured peer-to-peer communications. / Yang, Pinggai; Li, Jun; Zhang, Jun et al.

IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, ISCC 2010. Piscataway, NJ : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2010. p. 535-539 5546719.

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