Due to minimum consideration of an actual network topology, the existing peer-to-peer (P2P) overlay networks, such as CAN, Chord, Pastry and Tapestry, will lead to high latency and low efficiency. In TaChord, a topology-aware routing approach in P2P overlays and an improved design in Chord are presented. TaChord and other algorithms are evaluated by physical hops, interdomain-adjusted latency, and aggregate bandwidth used per message. Experimental results demonstrate that TaChord has the drastic improvement in routing performance where average physical hop is half that of chord, and the impact of cache management strategies in the TaChord overlay cannot be neglected.
