Balduf, Leonhard;
Korczyński, Maciej;
Ascigil, Onur;
Keizer, Navin V;
Pavlou, George;
Scheuermann, Björn;
Król, Michał;
(2023)
The Cloud Strikes Back: Investigating the Decentralization of IPFS.
In:
Proceedings of the 2023 ACM on Internet Measurement Conference.
(pp. pp. 391-405).
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM): New York, NY, United States.
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Abstract
Interplanetary Filesystem (IPFS) is one of the largest peer-to-peer filesystems in operation. The network is the default storage layer for Web3 and is being presented as a solution to the centralization of the web. In this paper, we present a large-scale, multi-modal measurement study of the IPFS network. We analyze the topology, the traffic, the content providers and the entry points from the classical Internet. Our measurements show significant centralization in the IPFS network and a high share of nodes hosted in the cloud. We also shed light on the main stakeholders in the ecosystem. We discuss key challenges that might disrupt continuing efforts to decentralize the Web and highlight multiple properties that are creating pressures toward centralization.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Cloud Strikes Back: Investigating the Decentralization of IPFS |
| Event: | IMC '23: ACM Internet Measurement Conference |
| ISBN-13: | 9798400703829 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1145/3618257.3624797 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1145/3618257.3624797 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author-accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | ipfs, decentralization, peer-to-peer networks |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Electronic and Electrical Eng |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10180653 |
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