DSL Projects

The Gaia project aims at enabling peer-to-peer systems to share relational data. It will allow the peers to perform complex database queries over the system by searching for relevant data stored at various peers in the network. In addition Gaia aims to make intelligent choice of peers that can provide required data based on load and network characteristics.

The name for the project originates from Isacc Asimov's Robot, Empire and Foundation novels. Gaia was a world of islands and people of Gaia learnt that they could best survive by reading and influencing one another's mental activity and thus developing a Collective Consciousness. Gaia also relates to the theory that believes that Earth itself is a living process that is self-organizing in conjunction with other organisms surviving on the planet. This self organization of Earth has made it survive and maintain its climactic and atmospheric conditions over time despite changes in immediate space.

People Involved:

Abhishek Gupta (Ph.D. Candidate)
Ozgur D. Sahin (Ph.D. Candidate)

Selected Publications:

A Peer-to-peer Framework for Caching Range Queries, Ozgur.D. Sahin, Abhishek Gupta, Divyakant Agrawal, and Amr El Abbadi. ICDE 2004. (to appear)
A Game Theoretic Framework for Incentives in P2P Systems. C. Buragohain, Divyakant Agrawal, and Subhash Suri. IEEE P2P 2003.
Range Addressable Network: A P2P Cache Architecture for Data Ranges. Anshul Kothari, Divyakant Agrawal, Abhishek Gupta, and Subhash Suri. IEEE P2P 2003.
Approximate Range Selection Queries in Peer-to-Peer Systems, Abhishek Gupta, Divyakant Agrawal, and Amr El Abbadi. CIDR 2003.
Query Processing Over Peer-To-Peer Data Sharing Systems, Ozgur.D. Sahin, A. Gupta, D. Agrawal, A. El Abbadi, UCSB Technical Report, (2002-28).