Decentralized Bootstrapping for WebRTC-based P2P Networks

Dennis Boldt; Kaminski Felix; Stefan Fischer

Decentralized Bootstrapping for WebRTC-based P2P Networks

Dennis Boldt, Kaminski Felix, Stefan Fischer

Institute of Telematics

Abstract

Around the millennium, peer-to-peer (P2P) networks were standalone applications, where users had to configure their firewalls properly to be able to connect to the network. Nowadays, P2P connections between browsers are possible without the need for any user-side configuration. This can be achieved with the Web Real-Time Communication protocol stack (WebRTC). Recent research showed that WebRTC-based peer-to-peer networks can work as a decentralized, redundant and encrypted storage for user data. However, all existing networks employ a centralized bootstrapping infrastructure, which still is a single point of failure. In this paper, we present a decentralized architecture to handle bootstrapping for a WebRTC-based peer-to-peer network, completely removing the need for a central instance. The architecture uses the highly decentralized Domain Name System (DNS), combined with so-called Master-Peers. Our evaluation shows that the architecture scales well and reduces the bootstrapping time remarkably.

Original language	English
Pages	17-23
Number of pages	7
Publication status	Published - 01.05.2017
Event	WEB 2017 : The Fifth International Conference on Building and Exploring Web Based Environments - Barcelona, Spain Duration: 21.05.2017 → 25.05.2017

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Conference	WEB 2017 : The Fifth International Conference on Building and Exploring Web Based Environments
Abbreviated title	WEB 2017
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Barcelona
Period	21.05.17 → 25.05.17

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