Research Article

A Persistent Structured Hierarchical Overlay Network to Counter Intentional Churn Attack

Table 2

Simulation parameters.

TypeParametersValues

Simulation parametersNetwork SizeMax 10000
Churn generatorMultiple churn generators (no churn initially, Pareto churn for normal failure, and lifetime churn for intentional attack)
Mean node lifetimeFor lifetime churn (churn attack)1600 s1300 s1000 s700 s400 s
For Pareto churn2,000 s

Common architecture parametersFix finger delay120 s
Stabilization delay60 s
Successor list size4

Node distribution Percentage of super peers5
Percentage of regular peers95
Percentage of malicious peers in regular peers for churn attack scenario only10203040 50

Degree of m-child family treeFor basic proposed architecture246