Gnutella Network Traffic : Measurements and Characteristics
Dragos I. Ilie · 2006
Wide availability of computing resources at the edge of the network has lead to the appearance of new services based on peer-to-peer architectures. In a peer-to-peer network nodes have the capability to act both as client and server. They self-organize and cooperate with each other to perform more efficiently operations related to peer discovery, content search and content distribution.