Real-time Information Querying over Peer-to-Peer Networks using Timestamps

Michael Gibson, Wamberto Vasconcelos

2013

Abstract

Most P2P networks are used for file-sharing applications. These forms of applications mainly rely on keyword searching to locate file resources on the peers. Whilst this querying is suitable for many data-intensive applications, it is not suitable for applications where data changes over short periods of time, also known as time-critical applications. We investigate the use of timestamps on a peer’s knowledge about an application to create queries so that other peers may reply with more up-to-date information to keep the peer’s knowledge up-to-date. We propose means to synchronise peers to provide them with a shared, independent clock so that they utilize timestamps. To show that a peer’s knowledge about a time-critical application affects the performance of other peers, we carried out experiments to show information propagation over a P2P network and use various metrics to evaluate our approach.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Gibson M. and Vasconcelos W. (2013). Real-time Information Querying over Peer-to-Peer Networks using Timestamps . In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-8565-38-9, pages 282-287. DOI: 10.5220/0004261102820287

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart13,
author={Michael Gibson and Wamberto Vasconcelos},
title={Real-time Information Querying over Peer-to-Peer Networks using Timestamps},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
year={2013},
pages={282-287},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004261102820287},
isbn={978-989-8565-38-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,
TI - Real-time Information Querying over Peer-to-Peer Networks using Timestamps
SN - 978-989-8565-38-9
AU - Gibson M.
AU - Vasconcelos W.
PY - 2013
SP - 282
EP - 287
DO - 10.5220/0004261102820287