Rare Resource’s Sharing Mechanism in Unstructured P2P Networks
Xu Hai-mei①③; Lu Xian-liang①; Ge Li-jia②③; Qi Shou-qing③
①College of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science & Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China;②Communication Engineering College of Chongqing University, Chongqing 400030, China; ③College of Chongqing Communications of People’s Liberation Army, Chongqing 400035, China
Abstract：Searching for files in popular unstructured P2P file-sharing systems contributes to much of internet traffic. While existing mechanisms can locate popular files easily, studies show they fail to find rare files exiting in the system. In fact the benefit users obtained from rare resources is not less than popular resources. So high searching hit for rare resources will dramatically improve the whole P2P network’s practicability. This paper proposes a simple distributed mechanism-NLIR which makes it easy to find rare files as well as popular files. According to peers’ heterogeneity, it distributes rare files’ index replications uniformly into the networks. Even with constraint conditions that bandwidth and storage is limited, it can achieve high hit-rate for rare resources. Both analysis and simulations demonstrate it improves the performance of the system.
2009, Vol. 31 
