Searching using probabilistic hints in unstructured peer-to-peer networks

  • Authors:
  • Xiuqi Li;Jie Wu;Jun (Jim) Xu

  • Affiliations:
  • Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL;Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL;Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

  • Venue:
  • PDCS '07 Proceedings of the 19th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Peer-to-peer (P2P) networking is designed for sharing resources at the edge of the Internet. Searching in file-sharing P2P networks has been an important research topic, and it has drawn significant attention recently. Hints can be utilized to improve query success rates. Determining how to efficiently and effectively propagate hints is a challenging issue. In this paper, we propose a searching protocol called HS-SDBF (Hint-based Search by Scope Decay Bloom Filter) that addresses this issue. HS-SDBF uses a data structure named SDBF (Scope Decay Bloom Filter) to represent and propagate probabilistic hints. Compared to existing proactive schemes, HS-SDBF can answer many more queries successfully at a lower amortized cost considering both the query traffic and hint propagation traffic. The experimental results support the performance improvement of our protocol.