Napster pioneered the idea of peer-to-peer file sharing, and supported it with a centralized file search facility. Subsequent P2P systems like Gnutella adopted decentralized sea...
Yatin Chawathe, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Lee Breslau, Nic...
Peer-to-peer computing and networking, an emerging model of communication and computation, has recently started to gain significant acceptance. This model not only enables client...
This paper reports on transfer rate models for the Gnutella signaling protocol. New results on message-level and IP-level rates are presented. The models are based on traffic capt...
— In order to be part of a peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing network a host must be fully powered-on all of the time. In addition to providing a user interface, a P2P host handles ...
— Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file sharing applications have witnessed a dramatic increase in popularity during the past few years. To accommodate the rapid growth in user population, de...