Novel applications of information retrieval techniques to peer-to-peer file-sharing systems
Wai Gen Yee, Linh Thai Nguyen · 2006
A leading application of peer-to-peer technology is file sharing. Because of its scale -- in the millions of users daily -- it is important that file-sharing systems have good search capabilities. A salient characteristic of these systems is that shared files are binary and described solely by small descriptors, in contrast to the self-describing nature of text document sharing systems. Experimental evidence indicates that it is possible to adopt and modify information retrieval techniques to these systems to improve their search accuracy.