Chimera (software library)
Chimera is a software library created as a research project at for the that implements a structured, peer-to-peer routing platform to allow the easy development of peer-to-peer applications.
The project’s focus is on providing a fast, lightweight implementation of a system like other such as ‘s Tapestry system and ‘s Pastry system, that can be easily used to build an application that creates an overlay network with a limited number of library calls. The library is intended to serve as both a usable complete structured peer-to-peer system and a starting point for further research. It includes some of the current work in locality optimization and operations.
The system contains both a leaf set of neighbor nodes, which provides fault tolerance and a probabilistic invariant of constant routing progress, and a PRR-style routing table to improve routing time to a logarithmic factor of network size.
Chimera is currently being used in industry labs, as part of research done by the , and by startup companies.