Distributed, Automatic File Description Tuning in Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing Systems

  • Authors:
  • Dongmei Jia;Wai Gen Yee;Linh Thai Nguyen;Ophir Frieder

  • Affiliations:
  • Illinois Institute of Technology;Illinois Institute of Technology;Illinois Institute of Technology;Georgetown University

  • Venue:
  • P2P '07 Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Peers in peer-to-peer file-sharing systems cannot effectively share their files if they are poorly described. Terms one user employs to describe an instance of a file may not be those that are commonly associated with the file, making this instance difficult to locate. To alleviate this problem, a server can ask its peers for help in improving the description of files they have in common. We consider the design of a fully distributed, automatic system for the exchange of descriptive metadata. Experimental results show that the proposed techniques are effective in improving search accuracy with reasonable cost.