%0 Journal Article %J Technical Reports from UMIACS, UMIACS-TR-2001-4299 %D 2001 %T The Design of TerraDir %A Bhattacharjee, Bobby %A Keleher,Pete %A Silaghi,Bujor %K Technical Report %X We present the design and initial evaluation of TerraDir: an approach forimplementing customizable, distributed, peer-to-peer directories over which a broad range of wide-area resource discovery applications can be implemented. TerraDir's structure is two-tiered, consisting of a base protocol for providing arbitrary application-layer connectivity, and dynamic view materializations that efficiently realize different user-specified views of application-layer resources. TerraDir is specifically designed for data that can be arranged in a rooted hierarchy, and provides very efficient and robust lookups over such data while still being able to allow efficient searching. (Also referenced as UMIACS-TR-2001-4299) %B Technical Reports from UMIACS, UMIACS-TR-2001-4299 %8 2001/12/17/ %G eng %U http://drum.lib.umd.edu/handle/1903/1161