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An Evaluation of a Cluster-based Testbed for Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval

Authors:
Saloua Zammali
Khedija Arour

Keywords: Testbed, P2P systems, Information retrieval.

Abstract:
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems present an advantageous way to provide and share services [1]. Hence, P2P are the major technology of access upon various resources on Internet. Hence, P2P are the major technology of access upon various resources on Internet. A particularly intriguing class of distributed applications consists in Information Retrieval(IR) systems. The issue of Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval (P2PIR) is being tackled by researchers attempting to provide valuable insights and to propose solutions to use it successfully. Nearly, all published studies have been evaluated by simulation means, using well known document collections (usually acquired from TREC). This practice leads to two problems: First, there is little justification in favor of the document distributions used by relevant studies and second, since different studies use different experimental testbeds, there is no common ground for comparing the solutions proposed. In this paper, we propose, CB a testbed for P2PIR based on P-Kmeans. CB, a clusterbased testbed, allows to distribute documents. This work marks the start of an effort to provide more realistic evaluation environments for P2PIR systems as well as to create a common ground to compare the current and future architectures.

Pages: 136 to 141

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: March 20, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3972

ISBN: 978-1-61208-124-3

Location: St. Maarten, The Netherlands Antilles

Dates: from March 20, 2011 to March 25, 2011