非结构化对等计算系统中多维范围搜索

对等计算数据管理中的一个重要问题是如何有效地支持多维数据空间上的相似性搜索.现有的非结构化对等计算数据共享系统仅支持简单的查询处理方法,即匹配查询处理.将近似技术和路由索引结合在一起,设计了一种简单、有效的索引结构EVARI(扩展近似向量路由索引).利用EVARI,每个节点不仅可以在本地共享的数据集上处理范围查询,而且还可以将查询转发给最有希望获得查询结果的邻居节点.为了建立EVARI,每个节点使用空间划分技术概括本地的共享内容,并与邻居节点交换概要信息.而且,每个节点都可以重新配置自己的邻居节点,使得相关节点位置相互邻近,优化了系统资源配置,提升了系统性能.仿真实验证明了该方法的良好性能.     

OPTIMIZED QUERY FORWARDING FOR RESOURCE DISCOVERY IN UNSTRUCTURED PEER-TO-PEER GRIDS

One of the challenges of resource discovery in unstructured peer-to-peer grid systems is minimizing network traffic. The network traffic arises by query messages that are broadcasted to other peers in order to find the appropriate resources. Blind search methods that are employed in such systems do not work well because every specific query generates high query traffic, which quickly overwhelms the network. Informed search methods usually use recorded history of previous queries to decide where the new queries should be sent. Such methods can reduce network traffic but do not consider the path length. In this study, a method was proposed in which both the path length and network traffic are considered. This approach reduces the hop numbers and prevents massive flooding of query messages. To do this, it selects optimum neighbor peer(s) in order to optimize query forwarding. The proposed approach uses statistical tables that are obtained from recorded history of previous queries. Then a genetic algorithm is applied to these statistical tables to find the optimum neighbor peer(s). The proposed approach showed that query forwarding through the optimum neighbor peer(s) has a greater probability of finding a requested resource with lower hop numbers. This method was compared with random walk and flooding approaches. It was observed that the network traffic remarkably decreased in comparison to a flooding approach, whereas it was similar to the results obtained by a random walk method. Moreover, this method provided a higher success rate in comparison to the random walk approach, whereas it was similar to the results obtained by a flooding method.     

基于紧缩状态表的高效数据定位方法

数据定位是松散式P2P系统面临的挑战性难题。本文提出了一种新的数据定位方法--紧缩状态表方法（CSTM）。在CSTM中，每个结点上维护一个状态表，保存了丁跳（Hop）内全部邻居上数据的关键字信息，各个结点按照状态表来转发数据定位消息。CSTM方法采用Bloom Filter技术来压缩表示状态表，采用查询Cache建立与最近访问的结点之间的快捷连接。模拟结果表明，与广播泛洪和二路随机转发方法相比，CSTM方法大大减低了P2P网络中数据定位的消息开销，并能够获得较短的查询路径长度。     

Continually Answering Constraint k-NN Queries in Unstructured P2P Systems

We consider the problem of efficiently computing distributed geographical k-NN queries in an unstructured peer-to-peer (P2P) system,in which each peer is managed by an individual organization and can only communicate with its logical neighboring peers.Such queries are based on local filter query statistics,and require as less communication cost as possible,which makes it more difficult than the existing distributed k-NN queries.Especially,we hope to reduce candidate peers and degrade communication cost.In this paper,we propose an efficient pruning technique to minimize the number of candidate peers to be processed to answer the k-NN queries.Our approach is especially suitable for continuous k-NN queries when updating peers,including changing ranges of peers,dynamically leaving or joining peers,and updating data in a peer. In addition,simulation results show that the proposed approach outperforms the existing Minimum Bounding Rectangle (MBR.)-based query approaches,especially for continuous queries.     

改进的非结构化P2P网络搜索算法

如何高效地搜索资源是P2P网络中最为关键的问题.非结构化的对等网络,一般以广播方式作为其搜索的基本策略,引发较大的网络流量.针对以上问题,提出了一种利用节点积累的经验指导节点传播查询的路由搜索算法.在该算法中,通过记录节点关注的主题、主题的信息量大小和满足主题的目标节点,并建立对应关系表.当节点收到查询后,就利用该表来指导节点选择查询,以便更快地找到查询结果.仿真结果表明,该算法有效地减少了查询带来的网络流量,提高了查找的成功率.     

An adaptive secure communication framework for mobile peer-to-peer environments using Bayesian games

Peers in Mobile P2P (MP2P) networks exploit both the structured and unstructured styles to enable communication in a peer-to-peer fashion. Such networks involve the participation of two types of peers: benign peers and malicious peers. Complexities are witnessed in the determination of the identity of the peers because of the user mobility and the unrestricted switching (ON/OFF) of the mobile devices. MP2P networks require a scalable, distributed and light-weighted secure communication scheme. Nevertheless, existing communication approaches lack the capability to satisfy the requirements above. In this paper, we propose an Adaptive Trusted Request and Authorization model (ATRA) over MP2P networks, by exploiting the limited historical interaction information among the peers and a Bayesian game to ensure secure communication. The simulation results reveal that regardless of the peer’s ability to obtain the other such peer’s trust and risk data, the request peers always spontaneously connect the trusted resource peers and the resource peers always preferentially authorize the trusted request peers. Performance comparison of ATRA with state-of-the-art secure communication schemes over MP2P networks shows that ATRA can: (a) improve the success rate of node typing identification, (b) reduce time required for secure connections found, (c) provide efficient resource sharing, and (d) maintain the lower average cost.     

Exploiting locality for scalable information retrieval in peer-to-peer networks

An important problem in unstructured peer-to-peer (P2P) networks is the efficient content-based retrieval of documents shared by other peers. However, existing searching mechanisms are not scaling well because they are either based on the idea of flooding the network with queries or because they require some form of global knowledge.We propose the Intelligent Search Mechanism (ISM) which is an efficient, scalable yet simple mechanism for improving the information retrieval problem in P2P systems. Our mechanism is efficient since it is bounded by the number of neighbors and scalable because no global knowledge is required to be maintained.ISM consists of four components: A Profiling Structure which logs queryhit messages coming from neighbors, a Query Similarity function which calculates the similarity queries to a new query, RelevanceRank which is an online neighbor ranking function and a Search Mechanism which forwards queries to selected neighbors.We deploy and compare ISM with a number of other distributed search techniques over static and dynamic environments. Our experiments are performed with real data over Peerware, our middleware simulation infrastructure which is deployed on 75 workstations. Our results indicate that ISM outperforms its competitors and that in some cases it manages to achieve 100% recall rate while using only half of the network resources required by its competitors. Further, its performance is also superior with respect to the total query response time and our algorithm exhibits a learning behavior as nodes acquire more knowledge. Finally ISM works well in dynamic network topologies and in environments with replicated data sources.     

Polymorphic queries for P2P systems

When a query is posed on a centralized database, if it refers to attributes that are not defined in the database, the user is warranted to get either an error or an empty set. In contrast, when a query is posed on a peer in a P2P system and refers to attributes not found in the local database, the query should not be simply rejected if the relevant information is available at other peers. This paper proposes a query model for unstructured P2P systems to answer such queries. (a) We introduce a class of polymorphic queries, a revision of conjunctive queries by incorporating type variables to accommodate attributes not defined in the local database. (b) We define the semantics of polymorphic queries in terms of horizontal and vertical object expansions, to find attributes and tuples, respectively, missing from the local database. We show that both expansions can be conducted in a uniform framework. (c) We develop a top-K algorithm to approximately answer polymorphic queries. (d) We also provide a method to merge tuples collected from various peers, based on matching keys specified in polymorphic queries. Our experimental study verifies that polymorphic queries are able to find more sensible information than traditional queries supported by P2P systems, and that these queries can be evaluated efficiently.     

一种高效的无结构对等网查询机制

提出一种提高无结构型对等网络查询效率的机制。在该机制下，节点根据地理位置自动聚类，类之间用Chord方式组合起来，从而减轻了逻辑网络与物理网络拓扑结构的不匹配。为了进一步提高查询效率，引入了一种类间索引技术。该技术使得查询消息不需要遍历所有的类就能获得全局搜索结果。与Gnutella中的洪泛滥查询相比，在TTL=5的情况下，该机制最多能减少超过80%的资源开销，最多可以将响应时间缩短59%。     

一种基于兴趣域的高效对等网络搜索方案

为了改进无结构对等网络中搜索效率低下的问题,提出了一种基于兴趣域的高效搜索方案．和常用的随机搜索方案不同,在所提方案中。文档属性由元数据通过RDF语句描述,拥有相同元数据的节点同属一个兴趣域,搜索请求首先在兴趣域中传播,大大提高了搜索效率．随着搜索过程的进行,节点对兴趣域内其他节点了解越多其搜索效率也越高．通过元数据选择窗口和元数据复制机制,可以进一步提高搜索效率．模拟实验结果证实了所提方案在无结构对等网络中的准确和高效．     

A path-traceable query routing mechanism for search in unstructured peer-to-peer networks

Unstructured Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks have become a very popular architecture for content distribution in large-scale and dynamic environments. Searching for content in unstructured P2P networks is a challenging task because the distribution of objects has no association with the organization of peers. Proposed methods in recent years either depend too much on objects replication rate or suffer from a sharp decline in performance when objects stored in peers change rapidly, although their performance is better than flooding or random walk algorithms to some extent. In this paper, we propose a novel query routing mechanism for improving query performance in unstructured P2P networks. We design a data structure called traceable gain matrix (TGM) that records every query's gain at each peer along the query hit path, and allows for optimizing query routing decision effectively. Experimental results show that our query routing mechanism achieves relatively high query hit rate with low bandwidth consumption in different types of network topologies under static and dynamic network conditions.     

Limited Scale-Free Overlay Topologies for Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Networks

In unstructured peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, the overlay topology (or connectivity graph) among peers is a crucial component in addition to the peer/data organization and search. Topological characteristics have profound impact on the efficiency of a search on such unstructured P2P networks, as well as other networks. A key limitation of scale-free (power-law) topologies is the high load (i.e., high degree) on a very few number of hub nodes. In a typical unstructured P2P network, peers are not willing to maintain high degrees/loads as they may not want to store a large number of entries for construction of the overlay topology. Therefore, to achieve fairness and practicality among all peers, hard cutoffs on the number of entries are imposed by the individual peers, which limits scale-freeness of the overall topology, hence limited scale-free networks. Thus, it is expected that the efficiency of the flooding search reduces as the size of the hard cutoff does. We investigate the construction of scale-free topologies with hard cutoffs (i.e., there are not any major hubs) and the effect of these hard cutoffs on the search efficiency. Interestingly, we observe that the efficiency of normalized flooding and random walk search algorithms increases as the hard cutoff decreases.     

Continually Answering Constraint <Emphasis Type="Italic">k</Emphasis>-<Emphasis Type="Italic">NN</Emphasis> Queries in Unstructured P2P Systems

We consider the problem of efficiently computing distributed geographical k-NN queries in an unstructured peer-to-peer （P2P） system, in which each peer is managed by an individual organization and can only communicate with its logical neighboring peers. Such queries are based on local filter query statistics, and require as less communication cost as possible which makes it more difficult than the existing distributed k-NN queries. Especially, we hope to reduce candidate peers and degrade communication cost. In this paper, we propose an efficient pruning technique to minimize the number of candidate peers to be processed to answer the k-NN queries. Our approach is especially suitable for continuous k-NN queries when updating peers, including changing ranges of peers, dynamically leaving or joining peers, and updating data in a peer. In addition, simulation results show that the proposed approach outperforms the existing Minimum Bounding Rectangle （MBR）-based query approaches, especially for continuous queries.     

一种基于蚁群算法的非结构化P2P网络搜索算法

在类似Gnutella的分散的非结构化P2P网络中,如何降低消息开销,提高搜索效率,是解决其扩展性问题的关键。引入蚁群算法的思想,提出一个非结构化P2P网络搜索算法。此算法利用蚂蚁留下信息素的正反馈机制,有效地指导搜索的方向,将查询消息包尽量发往目标可能存在的区域,从而减少冗余消息包的产生,得到更好的搜索输出。     

面向用户需求的非结构化P2P资源定位泛洪策略

在非结构化P2P网络中,如何对用户所需资源进行快速、准确定位是当前研究的热点问题,也是P2P应用领域面临的核心问题之一.相关的非结构化P2P资源定位算法在查准率、查全率和查询成本上难以同时被优化,这会造成严重的网络带宽负担以及巨大的索引维护开销.为此,提出一种面向用户需求的非结构化P2P资源定位策略(user requirements resource location strategy,简称U2RLS).该策略的创新点是:在原有非结构化P2P网络资源定位泛洪算法的基础上,融入用户需求、用户偏好、用户兴趣度等因素,首先进行用户资源子网划分;采用带有用户需求信息的泛洪和查询索引机制,对用户所需资源进行精确定位.该策略有效避免了因海量信息引起的网络风暴、信息重叠和资源搜索偏覆盖等问题,从而解决了查询节点盲目使用中继节点的现象.实验结果表明:面向用户需求的非结构化P2P资源定位策略U2RLS以其高搜索成功率、有限网络资源消耗和短查询时间响应等优势,能够显著地提高用户资源定位效率.     

Web search results caching service for structured P2P networks

This paper proposes a two-level P2P caching strategy for Web search queries. The design is suitable for a fully distributed service platform based on managed peer boxes (set-top-box or DSL/cable modem) located at the edge of the network, where both boxes and access bandwidth to those boxes are controlled and managed by an ISP provider. Our solution significantly reduces user query traffic going outside of the ISP provider to get query results from the respective Web search engine. Web users are usually very reactive to worldwide events which cause highly dynamic query traffic patterns leading to load imbalance across peers. Our solution contains a strategy to quickly ease imbalance on peers and spread communication flow among participating peers. Each peer maintains a local result cache used to keep the answers for queries originated in the peer itself and queries for which the peer is responsible for by contacting the Web search engine on-demand. When query traffic is predominantly routed to a few responsible peers our strategy replicates the role of “being responsible for” to neighboring peers so that they can absorb query traffic. This is a fairly slow and adaptive process that we call mid-term load balancing. To achieve a short-term fair distribution of queries we introduce a location cache in each peer which keeps pointers to peers that have already requested the same queries in the recent past. This lets these peers share their query answers with newly requesting peers. This process is fast as these popular queries are usually cached in the first DHT hop of a requesting peer which quickly tends to redistribute load among more and more peers.     

基于移动agent的无结构P2P网络拓扑重连方法研究

为了提高无结构P2P网络中资源查找的效率,同时避免在资源查找过程中出现拥塞,提出了一种基于移动agent的网络拓扑重连方法。网络节点定期进行拓扑重连,同时通过收集其邻居节点的处理能力以及连通性等信息,指导移动agent有目的地在网络迁移,从而使移动agent及时发现网络节点上的拥塞,并使用拓扑优化机制降低节点上的负载。实验证明该方法能优化网络的拓扑结构,避免网络查询过程中发生拥塞,提高资源查找的效率,同时适应网络查询负载的动态变化。     

Efficient Range Query Processing in Peer-to-Peer Systems

With the increasing popularity of the peer-to-peer (P2P) computing paradigm, many general range query schemes for distributed hash table (DHT)-based P2P systems have been proposed in recent years. Although those schemes can provide range query capability without modifying the underlying DHTs, they have the query delay depending on both the scale of the system and the size of the query space or the specific query, and thus cannot guarantee to return the query results in a bounded delay. In this paper, we propose Armada, an efficient range query processing scheme to support delay-bounded single-attribute and multiple-attribute range queries. It is the first delay-bounded general range query scheme on constant-degree DHTs, and can return the results for any range query within 2logN hops in a P2P system with N peers. Results of analysis and simulations show that the average delay in Armada is less than logN, and the average message cost of single-attribute range queries is about logN+2n 2 (n is the number of peers that intersect with the query). These results are very close to the lower bounds on delay and message cost of range queries over constant-degree DHTs.     

A mechanism for resource pricing and fairness in peer-to-peer networks

In peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, each peer acts as the role of client and server. As a client, each peer is regarded as a service customer. It sends requests to other peers to download files and obtains resource allocation from them. As a server, each peer is thought as a service provider. It receives service requests from other peers and allocates its resources to them. To encourage cooperation between peers, fairness is very important in P2P networks since it fosters an incentive to the peers to offer resources to the network. We formulate a fair resource allocation model for P2P networks and investigate the utility optimization problem by Lagrangian method. In order to realize the optimal resource allocation, we present a novel price-based resource allocation scheme by applying the first order Lagrangian method and low-pass filtering scheme, so that a service provider can allocate its resources to its customers based on offered prices, achieving the efficient and fair allocation of the available resources to the serviced customers. Simulation results confirm that the proposed algorithm can achieve the optimum within reasonable convergence times.     

利用路由索引技术提高Gnutellar的性能

Gnutella,这是目前应用比较广泛的peer-to-peer网络,但因为它的分布特性,寻找信息是通过广播方式向邻近结点传输的,使得网络带宽被大量浪费.针对这个问题引入路由索引RI(Routing Indices)技术,它允许结点将搜索信息转发到最有可能回复的邻居结点,免去了广播造成的带宽浪费,使得它很可能成为未来P2P的主流协议.