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Future Generation Computer Systems
Volume 23, Issue 2, February 2007, Pages 241-251
 
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doi:10.1016/j.future.2006.07.014    How to Cite or Link Using DOI (Opens New Window)
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An optimized two-tier P2P architecture for contextualized keyword searches

James SalterCorresponding Author Contact Information, a, E-mail The Corresponding Author and Nick Antonopoulos1, a, E-mail The Corresponding Author

aDepartment of Computing, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH, United Kingdom

Received 11 January 2006; 
revised 21 July 2006; 
accepted 24 July 2006. 
Available online 30 August 2006.

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Abstract

We describe a two-tiered P2P network for efficient lookup of contextualized data, utilizing an alternative strategy for building the network overlay designed to reduce the hops required to route lookups and improve fault tolerance by allowing the selection of nodes to build subrings. We show how the method is used to support context–keyword queries. Our calculations indicate that the technique yields improvements in the average query hop count while reducing the amount of state stored on each node. The use of Preference Lists can further reduce the average hop count through bypassing previously traversed segments of the structure.

Keywords: Peer-to-peer; Distributed hash tables; Context; Chord

Article Outline

1. Introduction
2. Related work
3. System model
3.1. Querying
3.1.1. Preference lists
3.1.2. Multiple context–keyword pair queries
3.2. Network construction
3.3. Resource registration
3.4. Lazy ring creation
3.5. Comparison with other approaches to subring construction
4. Message costs
4.1. Preference lists
4.2. Searches for non-existent contexts
4.3. Effect of ring size on query failure rate
4.4. Effect of different rates of keyword arrivals
5. Further issues
5.1. Node locality
5.2. Load balancing
5.3. Loss of information
5.4. Ring maintenance (Stabilization)
5.5. Network initialization
6. Conclusions and future work
Acknowledgements
References
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