Hash

http://deim.urv.cat/~cpairot/dhts.html collection of links to notes and papers about DHT [Distributed Hash Tables] implementation and various related topics.

http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~jrblack/papers/cbh.html#henson a paper by J. Black (U of Colorado) addressing some concerns about compare/address-by-hash methods. Those concerns are frequently razed by Val Henson