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Epidemic protocols are a bio-inspired communication and computation paradigm for large and extreme-scale networked systems. This work investigates the expansion property of the network overlay topologies induced by epidemic protocols. An expansion quality index for overlay topologies is proposed and adopted for the design of epidemic membership protocols. A novel protocol is proposed, which explicitly aims at improving the expansion quality of the overlay topologies. The proposed protocol is tested with a global aggregation task and compared to other membership protocols. The analysis by means of simulations indicates that the expansion quality directly relates to the speed of dissemination and convergence of epidemic protocols and can be effectively used to design better protocols.
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Poonpakdee, P., Di Fatta, G. (2015). Expansion Quality of Epidemic Protocols. In: Camacho, D., Braubach, L., Venticinque, S., Badica, C. (eds) Intelligent Distributed Computing VIII. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 570. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10422-5_31
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