Abstract Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks have emerged as a significant social phenomenon for
the distribution of information goods and may become an important alternative to traditional …

Peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing networks are an important medium for the distribution of
information goods. However, there is little empirical research into the optimal design of these …

A protocol for a distributed hash table (DHT) incurs communication costs to keep up with
churn–changes in membership–in order to maintain its ability to route lookups efficiently …

Large web search engines have to answer thousands of queries per second with interactive
response times. Due to the sizes of the data sets involved, often in the range of multiple …

Although search by keywords is particularly important for resource and service discovery in
P2P networks, existing techniques for keyword search in structured P2P overlays suffer from …

This paper challenges the traditional view taken by the recorded music industry of their key
target market for popular music, the young music consumer. With music ever more …

This paper discusses large scale keyword searching on top of peer-to-peer (P2P) networks.
The state-of-the-art keyword searching techniques for unstructured and structured P2P …

Blind flooding is a popular search mechanism used in current commercial P2P systems
because of its simplicity. However, blind flooding among peers or super-peers causes large …

Network-layer innovation has proven surprisingly difficult, in part because internetworking
protocols ignore competing economic interests and because a few protocols dominate …

Peer-to-peer search networks are a popular and widely deployed means of searching
massively distributed digital information repositories. Unfortunately, as such networks grow …