Intro

NEST supports constant-scale hashing scheme with two salient features, i.e., locality awareness and flat addressing.

Documentation

Documentation on how to use the NEST can be found in the doc/manual.pdf file.

More information and the design details can be found in the following paper:

• Yu Hua, Bin Xiao, Xue Liu, "NEST: Locality-aware Approximate Query Service for Cloud Computing", Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), April 2013, pages: 1327-1335. (pdf)