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In this study, we present the analysis of the interconnection network of a distributed Information Retrieval (IR) system, by simulating a switched network versus a shared access network. The results show that the use of a switched network improves the performance, especially in a replicated system because the switched network prevents the saturation of the network, particularly when using a large number of query servers.
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Cacheda, F., Carneiro, V., Plachouras, V., Ounis, I. (2005). Network Analysis for Distributed Information Retrieval Architectures. In: Losada, D.E., Fernández-Luna, J.M. (eds) Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3408. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-31865-1_40
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