OPEN-SYNAPSE

This is the homepage of OPEN-SYNAPSE.

OPEN-SYNAPSE is an open source implementation of Synapse: A Scalable Protocol for Interconnecting Heterogeneous Overlay Networks. It is available for free under the GNU GPL and has been developed in colaboration by researchers from Mathematical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and LogNet INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée. This implemetation is based on Open Chord (v. 1.0.5) - an open source implementation of the Chord distributed hash table by a group from the University of Bamberg.

OPEN-SYNAPSE is implemented on top of an arbitrary number of overlay networks. Internetworking can be built on top of Synapse in a very efficient way. Synapse is based on co-located nodes playing a role that is reminiscent of neural synapses. The current implementation of OPEN-SYNAPSE in this precise case interconnects many Chord overlay networks, where every Chord overlay has its own hash function.

Features of OPEN-SYNAPSE

• Stores any serializable Java object within a set of distributed hash tables (dhts).
• Facilitates configurable replication of entries in the dht.
• Currently provides two (proprietary) protocols for communication:
  • Local method calls: This protocol can be used to create a dht within one Java Virtual Machine for testing and visualization purposes.
  • Java Sockets: This protocol creates a dht distributed over different nodes (JVMs).

Requirements

• Java 2 Standard Edition 6.0.
• log4j.
• org.eclipse.swt

Developers

• Bojan Marinković
• Vincenzo Ciancaglini
• Francesco Bongiovanni