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A peer-to-peer based passive web crawling system

  • Qing Cai Chen*
  • , Xiao Hong Yang
  • , Xiao Long Wang
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen

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Abstract

Though the commercial success of search engines and large scale web page crawlers, the problems of page refresh, new URL discovering, large file downloading, distributed multimedia content feature extracting and indexing etc. are still open. The independent working behavior of each crawler makes it very hard to seek solutions for all these problems under the classical web crawler architecture. To address these problems, this paper proposes an innovative client/server based web crawling system. This system consists of a crawler server and a crawler client which work in the search engine and website end respectively. The crawler server registers itself to the client and joins into a temporary peer-to-peer network to cooperate and share downloaded data with other crawler servers. Different from the classical crawlers, the data downloading procedure is initialized by a client. So for the crawler server, this is a passive web crawling system. The main benefits of this system include the capability of timely management web changes for a crawler, the saving of website bandwidth resources, the capability of downloading large files or multimedia content features, and the capability of protection intellectual properties while indexing and searching the content. Our experiments taken on a simulation system show its efficiency and practicability for the real Internet environments.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 2011 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, ICMLC 2011
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages1878-1883
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)9781457703065
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes
Event10th International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, ICMLC 2011 - Guilin, Guangxi, China
Duration: 10 Jul 201113 Jul 2011

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics
Volume4
ISSN (Print)2160-133X
ISSN (Electronic)2160-1348

Conference

Conference10th International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, ICMLC 2011
Country/TerritoryChina
CityGuilin, Guangxi
Period10/07/1113/07/11

Keywords

  • Passive web crawler
  • peer-to-peer network
  • search engine

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