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Type of publication: | Inproceedings |
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Title | Locating Information with Uncertainty in Fully Interconnected Networks |
Bibtex cite ID | RACTI-RU1-2000-24 |
Booktitle | DISC 2000, Distributed Computing, 14th International Conference |
Year published | 2000 |
Keywords | Search,Information Retrieval,Complete Network,Uncertainty,Random Walk |
Abstract | We consider the problem of searching for a piece of information in a fully interconnected computer network or clique by exploiting
advice about its location from the network nodes Each node contains a
database that knows what kind of documents or information are stored
in other nodes e.g. a node could be a Web server that answers queries
about documents stored on the Web. The databases in each node when
queried provide a pointer that leads to the node that contains the information. However this information is up to date or correct with some
bounded probability. While in principle one may always locate the information by simply visiting the network nodes in some prescribed ordering
this requires a time complexity in the order of the number of nodes of the
network. In this paper we provide algorithms for locating an information node in the complete communication network that take advantage
of advice given from network nodes The nodes may either give correct
advice by pointing directly to the information node or give wrong advice
by pointing elsewhere We show that on the averageif the probability that a node provides correct advice is asymptotically larger than
where is the number of the computer nodes then the average time complexity for locating the information node is asymptotically or depending on the available memory.The probability may in general be a function of the number of network nodes . On the lower bounds
side we prove that noxed memory deterministic algorithm can locate
the information node in nite expected number of steps. We also prove
a lower bound of
for the expected number of steps of any algorithm
that locates the information node in the complete network. |
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BibTeX | BibTeX |
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Attachments |
locating information.pdf (main file) |
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Publication ID | 818 |
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