A global view of kad
Moritz Steiner, Taoufik En-Najjary, Ernst W. Biersack · 2007
Distributed hash tables (DHTs) have been actively studied in literature and many different proposals have been made on how to organize peers in a DHT. However, very few DHT shave been implemented in real systems and deployed on alarge scale. One exception is KAD , a DHT based on Kademlia, which is part of eDonkey2000, a peer-to-peer file sharing system with several million simultaneous users. We have been crawling KAD continuously for about six months and obtained information about the total number of peers online and their geographical distribution.