High data availability and consistency for distributed hash tables deployed in dynamic peer-to-peer communities [Elektronische Ressource] / von Predrag Knežević

High Data Availability and Consistencyfor Distributed Hash Tables Deployedin Dynamic Peer-to-peer CommunitiesVom Fachbereich 20 - Informatikder Technischen Universität Darmstadtzur Erlangung des akademischen Grades einesDoktor-Ingenieurs (Dr.-Ing.)genehmigteDissertationvonDiplom-IngenieurPredrag Kneževic´geboren in Zrenjanin, SerbienReferent: Prof. Dr. Erich J. NeuholdKorreferent: Prof. Dr. Karl AbererTag der Einreichung: 24. April 2007Tag der Mündlichen Prüfung: 10. Juli 2007Darmstadt 2007Hochschulkennziffer: D17iiiAcknowledgmentsFirst and foremost, I would like to express my thanks to my academic supervisor Prof. Dr.-Ing.Erich J. Neuhold, who guided the research presented in this thesis to its very end. I am prettysure that without his help it would be much harder to focus in given area, recognize unsolvedissues, and propose proper solutions.Special thanks are due to Prof. Dr. Karl Aberer. Apart from being my second adviser, he hascredits for discovering Fraunhofer IPSI Institute to me and recommending it as a good place forresearch that could match to my interests. I am glad that I followed his advice. I would lack avery important experience, if I did not.I am also like to thank to Prof. Dr. Alejandro Buchmann, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ralf Steinmetz, andProf. Dr. rer. nat. Max Mühlhäuser for being the member of the thesis committee and for thetime and effort that they have invested in judging the contents of my thesis.