Detecting, Managing and Querying Replicas and Versions in a Peer-to-Peer Environment

Abstract

(P2P) systems provide sharing of resources, which may be duplicated or versioned in several peers. However, traditional P2P systems are not aware of such replicas and versions, which arises an inefficiency and ineffectiveness problem. To solve this issue, our work proposes an automatic mechanism for replica and version detection. This functionality is presented as part of DetVX, an environment for managing replicas and versions of XML documents in a P2P context.