Leveraging duplicates to improve file availability of P2P storage systems

This paper proposes a strategy of improving file availability of peer-to-peer file storage systems, which provides the ability of identifying duplicate files and leveraging the duplicates. Our mechanism includes 1) strategy of building indexes for files to be stored in the system, 2) method to automatically identify identical files and policy to merge the indexes, and 3) comparison to former work and evaluations of this mechanism.Computer Science, Artificial IntelligenceComputer Science, Information SystemsComputer Science, Theory & MethodsSCI(E)CPCI-S(ISTP)