Chord: A scalable peer-to-peer lookup service for internet applications
Proceedings of the 2001 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
A scalable content-addressable network
Proceedings of the 2001 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Viceroy: a scalable and dynamic emulation of the butterfly
Proceedings of the twenty-first annual symposium on Principles of distributed computing
An MDP-based Peer-to-Peer Search Server Network
WISE '02 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering
Pastry: Scalable, Decentralized Object Location, and Routing for Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Systems
Middleware '01 Proceedings of the IFIP/ACM International Conference on Distributed Systems Platforms Heidelberg
Routing Indices For Peer-to-Peer Systems
ICDCS '02 Proceedings of the 22 nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'02)
Improving Search in Peer-to-Peer Networks
ICDCS '02 Proceedings of the 22 nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'02)
Peer-to-peer information retrieval using self-organizing semantic overlay networks
Proceedings of the 2003 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
A Meta-Search Method Reinforced by Cluster Descriptors
WISE '01 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE'01) Volume 1 - Volume 1
RDFPeers: a scalable distributed RDF repository based on a structured peer-to-peer network
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on World Wide Web
On scaling latent semantic indexing for large peer-to-peer systems
Proceedings of the 27th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Brief announcement: prefix hash tree
Proceedings of the twenty-third annual ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing
Mercury: supporting scalable multi-attribute range queries
Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Foreseer: a novel, locality-aware peer-to-peer system architecture for keyword searches
Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IFIP/USENIX international conference on Middleware
Enabling Flexible Queries with Guarantees in P2P Systems
IEEE Internet Computing
Indexing distributed complex data for complex queries
dg.o '04 Proceedings of the 2004 annual national conference on Digital government research
SkipNet: a scalable overlay network with practical locality properties
USITS'03 Proceedings of the 4th conference on USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems - Volume 4
Efficient peer-to-peer keyword searching
Proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 2003 International Conference on Middleware
DPTree: a distributed pattern tree index for partial-match queries in peer-to-peer networks
EDBT'06 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Advances in Database Technology
BuddyNet: history-based P2P search
ECIR'05 Proceedings of the 27th European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval Research
Tapestry: a resilient global-scale overlay for service deployment
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
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Due to rapid information growth, peer-to-peer (P2P) systems have become a promising alternative to centralized, client/server-based approaches for large-scale data sharing. By allowing peers to join and leave the system freely, they offer the peers autonomy to control their own resources, high scalability and high robustness against single-peer failures. P2P systems have many applications. This paper focuses on peer-to-peer information retrieval (P2PIR), which aims to retrieve textual documents based on their contents and ranks them based on some relevance measures against the query. The "open nature" of P2P systems and their lack of centralized control pose difficult challenges to the search capability and performance of P2PIR systems.In this paper, we study the recent works on P2P information retrieval, introduce our current research, discuss a few open problems that have not been studied in great depth and propose some future directions for information retrieval research in a P2P environment.