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Can the Inter Planetary File System Become an Alternative to Centralized Architectures?
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Can the Inter Planetary File System Become an Alternative to Centralized Architectures?

Diogo Oliveira, Mohamed Rahouti, Adrian Jaesim, Nazli Siasi and Leslie Ko
Human Interaction, Emerging Technologies and Future Systems V, pp.597-604
Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
International Virtual Conference on Human Interaction and Emerging Technologies, 5th (France, 08/27/2021–08/29/2021)
2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85540-6_75

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Abstract

Decentralization Decentralized storage Inter Planetary File System peer-to-peer communication Computer Architecture Data Systems
The Inter Planetary File System is a decentralized storage network based on peer-to-peer communication and strives to become an alternative to centralized standards such as HTTP. However, there is a pressing need in analyzing the performance of the former compared to the latter. Therefore, this paper deploys a testbed scenario to compare physical resources’ usage and transmission delay between IPFS, IPFS Cluster and threaded and non-threaded HTTP. Results show that although HTTP currently delivers higher throughput, its centralized approach can overwhelm servers and IPFS can leverage its decentralized architecture mostly for large-scale scenarios. Moreover, results also empirically show that IPFS’ content addressing resolution poses a serious challenge and should be addressed by its developers.

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