12th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-12 '03)
Flexible Information Discovery in Decentralized Distributed Systems
Seattle, Washington
June 22-June 24
ISBN: 0-7695-1965-2
The ability to efficiently discover information using partial knowledge (for example keywords, attributes or ranges) is important in large, decentralized, resource sharing distributed environments such as computational Grids and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) storage and retrieval systems. This paper presents a P2P information discovery system that supports flexible queries using partial keywords and wildcards, and range queries. It guarantees that all existing data elements that match a query are found with bounded costs in terms of number of messages and number of peers involved. The key innovation is a dimension reducing indexing scheme that effectively maps the multidimensional information space to physical peers. The design, implementation and experimental evaluation of the system are presented.
Citation:
Cristina Schmidt, Manish Parashar, "Flexible Information Discovery in Decentralized Distributed Systems," hpdc, pp.226, 12th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-12 '03), 2003