A Measurement Study of Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Systems (2002) [773 citations — 16 self]
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Abstract:
populari y of peer-to-peer multi#(1w fileshari1 appli;wqH(E such as Gnutella and Napster has created a flurry of recent research acti#H yi nto peer-to-peer archi/1H;wqH# We beli# e that the proper evaluatiw of a peerto -peer system must takei nto account the characteri;))( of the peers that choose to parti/wqH;) SurpriqH;)) , however, few of the peer-to-peer archi#(---1(wq currently bei( developed are evaluated wi) respect to such consiHwqH---#U)w Inthi paper, we remedythi siyw#)--- by performiw adetai/w measurement study of the two popular peer-to-peer file shariE systems, namely Napster and Gnutella. Inparti---wq)E our measurement study seeks to preci#Hw characteri1 the populatiq of end-user hosts that partiUwq)1 i these two systems. Thicharacteri1))wi iacteri the bottleneck bandwiEwq between these hosts and the Internet at large, IP-level latenciw to send packets to these hosts, howoften hosts connect and di(EUH)wq from the system, howmany files hosts share and download, the degree of cooperati1 between the hosts, and several correlati(( between these characteri11wi Our measurements showthat therei s si((H---#w theterogenei y and lack of cooperati# across peers partiEwq);------ i n these systems.

