Characterization of data on the Gnutella peer-to-peer network

Author

Miller, Jeffrey

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Southern California, CA, USA

fYear

2004

fDate

5-8 Jan. 2004

Firstpage

489

Lastpage

494

Abstract

The paper presents a characterization of the different types of files for which users search on the Gnutella network. The searches are classified into five different categories: audio files; video files; image files; documents and program files; files that cannot be classified as one of the other four types. Audio files are the most abundant type of file for which users search, followed closely by video files. Relatively few documents and program files are queried, and queries for image files are almost negligible. The percentage of queries for X-rated material is found to constitute a significant portion of the total queries. In addition to queries, the paper also quantifies the distribution of distinct files shared by hosts and duplicate files that are shared by more than one host.

Keywords

computer communications software; computer networks; open systems; protocols; statistical analysis; Gnutella peer-to-peer network; audio files; documents; image files; open protocol; program files; video files; Bandwidth; Computer science; Delay; Network topology; Peer to peer computing; Programming profession; Protocols; Routing; Scalability; Video sharing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 2004. CCNC 2004. First IEEE

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8145-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCNC.2004.1286910

Filename

1286910