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Abstract

Peer-Peer (P2P) technologies have recently been in the limelight for their disruptive power in particular they have emerged as a powerful multimedia content distribution mechanism. However, the widespread deployment of P2P networks are hindered by several issues, especially the ones that influence end-user satisfaction, including reliability. In this paper, we propose a solution for an efficient and user-oriented keyword lookup service on P2P networks. The proposed mechanism has been designed to achieve reliability via index load balancing and address the scalability issues of extremely popular keywords in the index. The system performance have been analytically derived as well implemented using the OpenDHT framework on PlanetLab.

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Abbreviations

P2P:

Peer to Peer

DHT:

Distributed Hash Table

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Acknowledgments

We are thankful to Georgui Velev and Amir Nader Teherani, for their suggestions, ideas, critics and support. We also would like to acknowledge the efforts of Paolo Bergamo, Dayana Cucchi, Gionata Ercolani, Matteo Morigi and Daniele Pieri for their help in the experiments and code development.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA

    Alok Nandan, Michael G. Parker & Giovanni Pau

  2. Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Informazione, University of Bologna, Bologna, 40126, Italy

    Paola Salomoni

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Correspondence to Giovanni Pau.

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This work has been partially supported by the Italian Ministry for Research and Education under the E-Grid initiative, FIRB initiative, ex 60%, ex 40% and Interlink Initiatives, by NSF under the Overprobe contract, by the UC Discovery Grant: UC-Core/STM contract.

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Nandan, A., Parker, M.G., Pau, G. et al. On index load balancing in scalable P2P media distribution. Multimed Tools Appl 29, 325–339 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-006-0015-5

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