Title :
Improved Result Ranking in P2P File-Sharing Systems by Probing for Metadata
Author :
Yee, Wai Gen ; Nguyen, Linh Thai ; Frieder, Ophir
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Illinois Inst. of Technol., Chicago, IL
Abstract :
One of the reasons that search performance of peer-to-peer file-sharing systems is poor is that results are poorly described, hurting the client´s ability to rank them. This is a consequence of the independent and distributed nature of servers in this architecture. We propose automatically probing the network for better descriptions to improve result ranking. Search performance improvements are demonstrated through extensive simulation results
Keywords :
meta data; peer-to-peer computing; query processing; metadata; network probing; peer-to-peer file-sharing system; Computer science; Cryptography; File servers; Indexing; Maintenance; Network servers; Peer to peer computing; Probes; Routing; Statistics;
Conference_Titel :
Network Computing and Applications, 2006. NCA 2006. Fifth IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Cambridge, MA
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2640-3
DOI :
10.1109/NCA.2006.36
