One of the reasons that search performance of peerto-peer file-sharing systems is poor is that results are poorly described, hurting the client’s ability to rank them. This is a...
Peers in peer-to-peer file-sharing systems cannot effectively share their files if they are poorly described. Terms one user employs to describe an instance of a file may not be t...
Dongmei Jia, Wai Gen Yee, Linh Thai Nguyen, Ophir ...
The fundamental drawback of unstructured peer-to-peer (P2P) networks is the flooding-based query processing protocol that seriously limits their scalability. As a result, a signi...
We consider the problem of information retrieval in a peerto-peer file sharing system. We assume that peers are unreliable, metadata are sparse, and queries are short. In light o...