%0 Book Section
%B Handbook of Peer-to-Peer Networking
%D 2010
%T Gossip-based broadcast
%A João Leitão
%A José Orlando Pereira
%A Luis Rodrigues
%E X. Shen
%E H. Yu
%E J. Buford
%E M. Akon
%I Springer
%U http://www.springer.com/engineering/signals/book/978-0-387-09750-3?detailsPage=toc
%X <p>Gossip, or epidemic, protocols have emerged as a powerful strategy to implement highly scalable and resilient reliable broadcast primitives on large scale peer-to-peer networks. Epidemic protocols are scalable because they distribute the load among all nodes in the system and resilient because they have an intrinsic level of redundancy that masks node and network failures. This chapter provides an introduction to gossip-based broadcast on large-scale unstructured peer-to-peer overlay networks: it surveys the main results in the field, discusses techniques to build and maintain the overlays that support efficient dissemination strategies, and provides an in-depth discussion and experimental evaluation of two concrete protocols, named HyParView and Plumtree.</p>