A hierarchical P2P overlay network for interest-based media contents lookup
HyunRyong Lee, JongWon Kim · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2006
We propose a P2P (peer-to-peer) overlay architecture, called IGN (interest grouping network), for contents lookup in the DHC (digital home community), which aims to provide a formalized home-network-extended construction of current P2P file sharing community. The IGN utilizes the Chord and de Bruijn graph for its hierarchical overlay network construction. By combining two schemes and by inheriting its features, the IGN efficiently supports contents lookup. More specifically, by introducing metadata-based lookup keyword, the IGN offers detailed contents lookup that can reflect the user interests. Moreover, the IGN tries to reflect home network environments of DHC by utilizing HG (home gateway) of each home network as a participating node of the IGN. Through experimental and analysis results, we show that the IGN is more efficient than Chord, a well-known DHT (distributed hash table)-based lookup protocol.