GridVine: An Infrastructure for Peer Information Management

  • Authors:
  • Philippe Cudre-Mauroux;Suchit Agarwal;Karl Aberer

  • Affiliations:
  • Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne;Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne;Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Internet Computing
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

GridVine is a semantic overlay infrastructure based on a peer-to-peer (P2P) access structure. Built following the principle of data independence, it separates a logical layer—in which data, schemas, and schema mappings are managed—from a physical layer consisting of a structured P2P network supporting decentralized indexing, key load-balancing, and efficient routing. The system is decentralized, yet fosters semantic interoperability through pair-wise schema mappings and query reformulation. GridVine's heterogeneous but semantically related information sources can be queried transparently using iterative query reformulation. The authors discuss a reference implementation of the system and several mechanisms for resolving queries collaboratively.