Analysis of time-dependent query trends in P2P file sharing systems

  • Authors:
  • Masato Doi;Shingo Ata;Ikuo Oka

  • Affiliations:
  • Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan;Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan;Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan

  • Venue:
  • APNOMS'09 Proceedings of the 12th Asia-Pacific network operations and management conference on Management enabling the future internet for changing business and new computing services
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In P2P file sharing systems, time dependent characteristics of query (query trends) for a file become much important to forecast the demand of the file in future. Prediction of future demand would be effective for the efficient use of the caching mechanism, however, the accurate prediction of query trend is difficult because patterns of query trends may differ significantly according to a nature of keyword used in the query. Identification of query pattern is one of important roles for accurate forecast of future query demand. In this paper, we propose a new method to classify measured query trends into some typical query patterns. We first measure query trend for each keyword in the most famous P2P file sharing system in Japan, and analyze the pattern of query trends by using clustering technique with Discrete Fourier Transform. We then apply our method to the measurement results and show that most of keywords can be categorized into one of four typical trend patterns.