Answering constrained k-NN queries in unstructured P2P systems

  • Authors:
  • Bin Wang;Xiaochun Yang;Guoren Wang;Lei Chen;Sean X. Wang;Xuemin Lin;Ge Yu

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Information Sciences and Engineering, Northeastern University, China;School of Information Sciences and Engineering, Northeastern University, China;School of Information Sciences and Engineering, Northeastern University, China;Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology;Department of Computer Science, University of Vermont;School of Computer Sci. and Eng., The University of New South Wales, Australia;School of Information Sciences and Engineering, Northeastern University, China

  • Venue:
  • DBISP2P'05/06 Proceedings of the 2005/2006 international conference on Databases, information systems, and peer-to-peer computing
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The processing of k-NN queries has been studied extensively both in a centralized computing environment and in a structured P2P environment. However, the problem over an unstructured P2P system is not well studied despite of their popularity. Communication-efficient processing of k-NN queries in such an environment is a unique challenge due to the distribution, dynamics and large scale of the system. In this paper, we investigate the problem of efficiently computing k-NN queries over unstructured P2P systems. We first propose a location-based domination model to determine a search space. We then present two types of probing strategies, radius-convergence and radius-expanding. A comprehensive performance study demonstrates that our techniques are efficient and scalable.