A Bandwidth Model for Internet Search

Summary: Formal bandwidth model links network parameters, data change rate, query frequency, topology, and currency to per-query bandwidth. Shows hierarchical, change-based updates scale to large indexes with modest bandwidth, arguing against centralized search. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8874
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2002
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Overall Rank: 13,790 | 4.16%
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1. Axel Uhl

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