Necessity of Supernodes Survey
David Hadaller, Kevin Regan · 2005
The advent of the Internet has made the transfer of data between people easier and more efficient. One specific and popular application of this process is the peer-to-peer(P2P) network. P2P networks are an overlay network on top of the Internet’s topology and accounts for a large portion of Internet traffic[24]. The basic idea of a P2P network is that individual peers can connect to a set of other peers and query them. These queries are forwarded into the network according to a protocol defined by the designers of the P2P network.