Feature-based Distributed Object Search Using Signatures in Peer-to-Peer Environments

摘要

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technology has attracted a lot of attention in recent years. Efficient object search is an important research issue in P2P environments, especially in those without centralized global indexes. Although a number of hash-based basic object search schemes are known to alleviate the problem, they cannot provide flexible feature-based object searches. This paper proposes a novel object search method using distributed frame sliced signatures, and looks at an appropriate choice of parameters to adapt the configuration to the object search and registration workload. It shows object search and registration schemes that take into account the number of messages and response times. Effectiveness of these schemes is evaluated through simulation experiments.