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Data management in Peer-to-Peer environment: A perspective of BestPeer

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Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems have attracted much attention in academic community and industry circles due to their promising applications in various domains. This paper presents the authors' research efforts on introducing complex query capabilities in a P2P environment consisting of numerous peers with large volume of data. An underlying hybrid P2P computing platform, named BestPeer is described first. The connection among peers within BestPeer is selfconfigurable through maintaining the nearest neighbor of peers, and the agent techniques employed in the system ensure its capability of providing sophisticated services. The designs of three P2P data management systems which are all based on BestPeer are described in detail. They provide support for information retrieval, query processing and Web services respectively. Advantages and limitations are discussed, while ongoing work is presented. Current systems can provide basic functions for keyword-based search, SQL-like query processing, and Web services querying and discovery. Some further topics on providing fully-fledged data management functionalities for P2P distributed computing systems with security guarantee are also discussed.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Fudan University, 200433, Shanghai, P.R. China

    AoYing Zhou, WeiNing Qian, ShuiGeng Zhou, Bo Ling & LinHao Xu

  2. Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 2, 117543, Singapore

    Siong Ng Wee, Chin Ooi Beng & Kian-Lee Tan

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This work is supported by the National University of Singapore and Infocommunications Development Authority of Singapore under a grant on peer-to-peer computing research.

ZHOU AoYing received his Ph.D. degree in computer software from Fudan. University in 1993. He is currently a professor at the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering of Fudan Univ. His research interests include Web data management and data mining, streaming data analysis and processing, and P2P computing systems.

QIAN WeiNing received his M.S. degree in computer science from Fudan Univ. in 2000, and is a Ph.D. candidate at the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering of Fudan Univ. His specialty is Web database and P2P computing. His research interests include data mining and clustering, streaming data management, P2P computing and the related data management.

ZHOU ShuiGeng received his Ph.D. degree in computer software from Fudan Univ. in 2000. He is currently an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Fudan University. His research interest lies in information retrieval and text mining, spatial database and geographic information systems, and peer-to-peer computing.

LING Bo is a Ph.D. candidate at the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering of Fudan Univ. His present research activities focus on P2P computing platform and the data management and information retrieval over P2P environment.

XU LinHao is a Ph.D. candidate at the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering of Fudan Univ. His research interests are P2P computing platform and middleware-related data management over P2P environment.

Ng Wee Siong obtained his B.I.T. from Faculty of Information Technology, University Malaysia Sarawak in 1998, and his Ph.D. degree in computer science form National University of Singapore (NUS). His research interests include database performance issues, peer-to-peer computing, distributed computing and Internet applications.

Ooi Beng Chin is a professor in computer science and Vice Dean (Academic Affairs and Graduate Studies) at School of Computing, National University of Singapore, and a fellow of Singapore-MIT Alliance Programme. He obtained his B.Sc. (1st Class Honors) and Ph.D. degrees from Monash University, Australia, in 1985 and 1989 respectively. His research Interests include database performance issues, indexing techniques, XML, P2P/parallel/distributed computing, and embedded system, Internet and genomic applications.

Tan Kian-Lee received his Ph.D. degree in computer science in 1994 from National University of Singapore (NUS). He is an associate professor in the Dept. of Computer Science, School of Computing, NUS, Singapore. His current research interests include multimedia information retrieval, query processing and optimization in multiprocessor and distributed systems, and database performance. database security and genome databases.

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Zhou, A., Qian, W., Zhou, S. et al. Data management in Peer-to-Peer environment: A perspective of BestPeer. J. Comput. Sci. & Technol. 18, 452–461 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02948919

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