Gnutella overlays have evolved to use a two-tier topology. However, we observed that the new topology had only achieved modest improvements in search success rates. Also, the new ...
—Recently, unstructured peer-to-peer (P2P) applications have become extremely popular. Searching in these networks has been a hot research topic. Flooding-based searching, which ...
Abstract-- Overlay networks are application layer systems which facilitate users in performing distributed functions such as searches over the contents of other users. An important...
Recent years saw the rapid development of peer-topeer (P2P) networks in a great variety of applications. However, similarity-based k-nearest-neighbor retrieval (k-NN) is still a c...
— The present paper introduces a replication method that is meant to balance the storage load of peers in unstructured peer-to-peer (P2P) networks for file sharing and to provid...