Globase.KOM - A P2P Overlay for Fully Retrievable Location-based Search
Key: KLS07-1
Author: Aleksandra Kovacevic, Nicolas Liebau, Ralf Steinmetz
Date: September 2007
Kind: In proceedings
Book title: Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing
Abstract: Location based services are becoming increasingly popular as devices that determine geographical position become more available to end users. The main problem of existing solutions to location-based search is keeping information updated requires centralized maintenance at specific times. Therefore, retrieved results do not include all objects that exist in reality. A peer-to-peer (P2P) approach can easily overcome this issue as peers are responsible for the information users are searching for. Unfortunately, current state-of-the-art overlays cannot fulfill the requirements for efficient and fully retrievable location-based search. In this paper we present Globase.KOM, a hierarchical tree-based P2P overlay that enables fully retrievable location-based overlay operations which proved to be highly efficient and logarithmically scalable.
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