Keyword Search in Decentralized Storage Systems

• Published in: Electronics (Basel) Vol. 9; no. 12; p. 2041
• Main Authors: Zhu, Liyan, Xiao, Chuqiao, Gong, Xueqing
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.12.2020
• Subjects: Algorithms; Blockchain; Cryptography; Data integration; Keywords; Nodes; Queries; Response time (computers); Searching; Storage systems; Version control

The emerging decentralized storage systems (DSSs), such as InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), Storj, and Sia, provide people with a new storage model. Instead of being centrally managed, the data are sliced up and distributed across the nodes of the network. Furthermore, each data object is uniquely...