• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.16C no.1
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• pp.73-82
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• 2009

The peers in the Chord method send messages periodically to keep the routing table updated. In a mobile P2P network, the peers in the Chord method should send messages more frequently to keep the routing table updated and reduce the failure of a request. However this results in increasing the overall network traffic. In our previous method, we proposed a method to reduce the update load of the routing table in the existing Chord by updating it in a reactive way, but there were disadvantages to generate more traffic if the number of requests per second increases and to have more delay in the request processing time than the existing Chord. In this paper, we propose an improved method of reactive routing table update to reduce the request processing time. In the proposed method, when a data request comes, the routing table is updated only if its information is not recent while it is always updated in the previous method. We perform experiments using Chord simulator (I3) made by UC Berkely. The experimental results show the performance improvement of the proposed method compared to the existing method.