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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information

Similarity Search in InterPlanetary File System with the Aid of Locality Sensitive Hash

Satoshi FUJITA

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To realize an information-centric networking, IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) generates a unique ContentID for each content by applying a cryptographic hash to the content itself. Although it could improve the security against attacks such as falsification, it makes difficult to realize a similarity search in the framework of IPFS, since the similarity of contents is not reflected in the proximity of ContentIDs. To overcome this issue, we propose a method to apply a locality sensitive hash (LSH) to feature vectors extracted from contents as the key of indexes stored in IPFS. By conducting experiments with 10,000 random points corresponding to stored contents, we found that more than half of randomly given queries return a non-empty result for the similarity search, and yield an accurate result which is outside the σ confidence interval of an ordinary flooding-based method. Note that such a collection of random points corresponds to the worst case scenario for the proposed scheme since the performance of similarity search could improve when points and queries follow an uneven distribution.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E104-D No.10 pp.1616-1623
Publication Date
2021/10/01
Publicized
2021/07/08
Online ISSN
1745-1361
DOI
10.1587/transinf.2020EDP7198
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
Information Network

Authors

Satoshi FUJITA
  Hiroshima University

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