Privacy Preserving Document Indexing Infrastructure for a Distributed Environment

Summary: A distributed indexing infrastructure for confidential search across access-controlled document collections, without a central trusted authority. Integrates privacy-preserving outsourced inverted indexes, DHT-based P2P indexing, dynamic sharing, and confidential top-k retrieval. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 10004
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2008
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 12,608 | 13.50%
DOI: 10.14778/1454159.1454170

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Authors

1. Sergej Zerr (L3S Research Center)

BibTeX Citation

@article{zerr_vldb08,
        title = {{Privacy Preserving Document Indexing Infrastructure for a Distributed Environment}},
        author = {Zerr, Sergej},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '08},
        volume = {1},
        number = {2},
        pages = {1638--1641},
        doi = {10.14778/1454159.1454170},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1454159.1454170},
        year = {2008}
}

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
114	Executing SQL over Encrypted Data in the Database-Service-Provider Model	2002	SIGMOD	0.00032363776
1,413	Controlling Access to Published Data Using Cryptography	2003	VLDB	0.00010848409
5,086	Privacy-Preserving Indexing of Documents on the Network	2003	VLDB	6.3680338e-05

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