The eDonkey File-Sharing Network

Abstract: The eDonkey 2000 file-sharing network is one of the most successful peerto-peer file-sharing applications, especially in Germany. The network itself is a hybrid peer-to-peer network with client applications running on the end-system that are connected to a distributed network of dedicated servers. In this paper we describe the eDonkey protocol and measurement results on network/transport layer and application layer that were made with the client software and with an open-source eDonkey server we extended for these measurements.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: GI
• Authors: Oliver Heckmann, Axel Bock, Andreas Mauthe, Ralf Steinmetz
• Keywords: EDonkey 2000, GI 2004, Hybrid Peer-to-peer Network, Open-source EDonkey Server, Theoretical Computer Science