Beverly Yang

Abstract Designing a Super-Peer Network (2008)

Beverly Yang, Hector Garcia-m

A super-peer is a node in a peer-to-peer network that operates both as a server to a set of clients, and as an equal in a network of super-peers. Super-peer networks strike a balance between the...

ABSTRACT Building a Distributed Full-Text Index for the Web (2008)

Sergey Melnik, Sriram Raghavan, Beverly Yang, Hector Garcia-molina

We identify crucial design issues in building a distributed inverted index for a large collection of Web pages. We introduce a novel pipelining technique for structuring the core index-building...

Abstract Non-Cooperation in Competitive P2P Networks £ (2008)

Beverly Yang, Tyson Condie, Sepandar Kamvar, Hector Garcia-molina

Large-scale competitive P2P networks are threatened by the noncooperation problem, where peers do not forward queries to potential competitors. While non-cooperation is not a problem in current P2P...

Retrieval—User profiles and alert services (2008)

Beverly Yang, Google Inc

Major search engines currently use the history of a user’s actions (e.g., queries, clicks) to personalize search results. In this paper, we present a new personalized service, query-specific web...

SmartSeer: Using a DHT to process continuous queries over peer-to-peer networks (2006)

Jayanthkumar Kannan, Beverly Yang, Scott Shenker, Puneet Sharma, Sujata Banerjee, Sujoy Basu, ...

Abstract — As the academic world moves away from physical journals and proceedings towards online document repositories, the ability to efficiently locate work of interest among the torrent of...

One torus to rule them all: Multi-dimensional queries in p2p systems (2004)

Prasanna Ganesan, Beverly Yang, Hector Garcia-molina

Peer-to-peer systems enable access to data spread over an extremely large number of machines. Most P2P systems support only simple lookup queries. However, many new applications, such as P2P photo...

Evaluating GUESS and Non-Forwarding Peer-to-Peer Search (2004)

Beverly Yang, Patrick Vinograd, Hector Garcia-molina

Current search techniques over unstructured peer-topeer networks rely on intelligent forwarding-based techniques to propagate queries to other peers in the network. Forwarding techniques are...

One torus to rule them all: Multi-dimensional queries in p2p systems (2004)

Prasanna Ganesan, Beverly Yang, Hector Garcia-molina

Peer-to-peer systems enable access to data spread over an extremely large number of machines. Most P2P systems support only simple lookup queries. However, many new applications, such as P2P photo...

Evaluating GUESS and Non-Forwarding Peer-to-Peer Search (2004)

Beverly Yang, Patrick Vinograd, Hector Garcia-molina

Current search techniques over unstructured peer-topeer networks rely on intelligent forwarding-based techniques to propagate queries to other peers in the network. Forwarding techniques are...

Designing a Super-peer Network (2003)

Beverly Yang, Hector Garcia-m

Despite their growing popularity, the behavior of super-peernetworks is not well understood. For example, what are the potential drawbacks of super-peer networks? How can super-peers be made more...

Designing a Super-peer Network (2003)

Beverly Yang, Hector Garcia-molina

Abstract A super-peer is a node in a peer-to-peer network that operates both as a server to a set of clients, and as an equal in a network of super-peers. Super-peer networks strike a balance between...

Addressing the non-cooperation problem in competitive P2P systems,” presented at the 1st Workshop on Economics of Peer-to-Peer Systems (2003)

Sepandar Kamvar, Beverly Yang, Hector Garcia-molina

Large-scale competitive P2P systems are threatened by the noncooperation problem, where peers do not forward queries to potential competitors. While non-cooperation is not a problem in current P2P...

Peer-to-Peer Research at Stanford (2003)

Mayank Bawa, Brian F. Cooper, Arturo Crespo, Neil Daswani, Prasanna Ganesan, Hector Garcia-molina, ...

this paper we present recent and ongoing research projects of the Peers research group at Stanford University. Section 2 studies the problems relating to locating resources in P2P systems. Section 3...

Addressing the Non-Cooperation Problem in Competitive P2P (2003)

Systems Beverly Yang, Beverly Yang, Sepandar Kamvar, Hector Garcia-molina

Large-scale competitive P2P systems are threatened by the noncooperation problem, where peers do not forward queries to potential competitors. While non-cooperation is not a problem in current P2P...

Open Problems in Data-Sharing Peer-to-Peer Systems (2003)

Neil Daswani, Hector Garcia-molina, Beverly Yang

In a Peer-To-Peer (P2P) system, autonomous computers pool their resources (e.g., les, storage, compute cycles) in order to inexpensively handle tasks that would normally require large costly servers....

Designing a Super-peer Network (2003)

Beverly Yang, Hector Garcia-molina

A super-peer is a node in a peer-to-peer network that operates both as a server to a set of clients, and as an equal in a network of super-peers. Super-peer networks strike a balance between the...

Improving search in peer-to-peer networks (2002)

Beverly Yang, Hector Garcia-molina

Peer-to-peer systems have emerged as a popular way to share huge volumes of data. The usability of these systems depends on effective techniques to find and retrieve data; however, current techniques...

Efficient search in peer-to-peer networks (2002)

Beverly Yang, Hector Garcia-molina

Peer-to-peer systems have emerged as a popular way to share huge volumes of data. The usability of these systems depends on effective techniques to find and retrieve data; however, current techniques...

Building a Distributed Full-Text Index for the Web (2001)

Melnik, Sergey, Raghavan, Sriram, Yang, Beverly, Garcia-Molina, Hector

We identify crucial design issues in building a distributed inverted index for a large collection of Web pages. We introduce a novel pipelining technique for structuring the core index-building...

Building a distributed full-text index for the web (2001)

Sergey Melnik, Sriram Raghavan, Beverly Yang, Hector Garcia-molina

We identify crucial design issues in building a distributed inverted index for a large collection of Web pages. We introduce a novel pipelining technique for structuring the core index-building...

Building a distributed full-text index for the web (2001)

Sergey Melnik, Sriram Raghavan, Beverly Yang, Hector Garcia-molina

We identify crucial design issues in building a distributed inverted index for a large collection of Web pages. We introduce a novel pipelining technique for structuring the core index-building...

Building a distributed full-text index for the web (2001)

Sergey Melnik, Sriram Raghavan, Beverly Yang, Hector Garcia-molina

We identify crucial design issues in building a distributed inverted index for a large collection of Web pages. We introduce a novel pipelining technique for structuring the core index-building...

Building a distributed full-text index for the web (2001)

Sergey Melnik, Sriram Raghavan, Beverly Yang, Hector Garcia-molina

We identify crucial design issues in building a distributed inverted index for a large collection of Web pages. We introduce a novel pipelining technique for structuring the core index-building...

Building a distributed full-text index for the web (2001)

Sergey Melnik, Sriram Raghavan, Beverly Yang, Hector Garcia-molina

We identify crucial design issues in building a distributed inverted index for a large collection of web pages. We introduce a novel pipelining technique for structuring the core index-building...

Building a distributed full-text index for the web (2001)

Sergey Melnik, Sriram Raghavan, Beverly Yang, Hector Garcia-molina

We identify crucial design issues in building a distributed inverted index for a large collection of Web pages. We introduce a novel pipelining technique for structuring the core index-building...

Comparing Hybrid Peer-to-Peer Systems (2001)

Beverly Yang, Hector Garcia-molina

“Peer-to-peer ” systems like Napster and Gnutella have recently become popular for sharing information. In this paper, we study the relevant issues and tradeoffs in designing a scalable P2P...