1) Bloomcast is an efficient and effective full-text retrieval scheme for unstructured peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. It guarantees perfect recall rates with high probability while reducing communication costs.
2) Bloomcast replicates documents across the P2P network using Bloom filters rather than the raw data. This reduces storage and communication costs for replication.
3) By leveraging a hybrid P2P protocol, Bloomcast uniformly distributes items randomly across the network. This allows for random node sampling and network size estimation while guaranteeing recall at a communication cost of O(√N), where N is the network size.