A Measurement Study of Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Systems Export

@misc{citeulike:5059320, abstract = {The popularity of peer-to-peer multimedia le sharing applications such as Gnutella and Napster has created a urry of recent research activity into peer-to-peer architectures. We believe that the proper evaluation of a peerto -peer system must take into account the characteristics of the peers that choose to participate. Surprisingly, however, few of the peer-to-peer architectures currently being developed are evaluated with respect to such considerations. In this paper, we remedy this situation by performing a detailed measurement study of the two popular peer-to-peer le sharing systems, namely Napster and Gnutella. In particular, our measurement study seeks to precisely characterize the population of end-user hosts that participate in these two systems. This characterization includes the bottleneck bandwidths between these hosts and the Internet at large, IP-level latencies to send packets to these hosts, how often hosts connect and disconnect from the system, how many les hosts share and download, the degree of cooperation between the hosts, and several correlations between these characteristics. Our measurements show that there is signi cant heterogeneity and lack of cooperation across peers participating in these systems.}, author = {Krishna, Stefan S. and Gummadi, P. Krishna and Gribble, Steven D.}, citeulike-article-id = {5059320}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.18.6611}, keywords = {file-sharing, p2p}, posted-at = {2009-07-05 00:42:01}, priority = {2}, title = {A Measurement Study of Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Systems}, url = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.18.6611}, year = {2002} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:5059320 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5059320 N2 - The popularity of peer-to-peer multimedia le sharing applications such as Gnutella and Napster has created a urry of recent research activity into peer-to-peer architectures. We believe that the proper evaluation of a peerto -peer system must take into account the characteristics of the peers that choose to participate. Surprisingly, however, few of the peer-to-peer architectures currently being developed are evaluated with respect to such considerations. In this paper, we remedy this situation by performing a detailed measurement study of the two popular peer-to-peer le sharing systems, namely Napster and Gnutella. In particular, our measurement study seeks to precisely characterize the population of end-user hosts that participate in these two systems. This characterization includes the bottleneck bandwidths between these hosts and the Internet at large, IP-level latencies to send packets to these hosts, how often hosts connect and disconnect from the system, how many les hosts share and download, the degree of cooperation between the hosts, and several correlations between these characteristics. Our measurements show that there is signi cant heterogeneity and lack of cooperation across peers participating in these systems. TI - A Measurement Study of Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Systems KW - file-sharing KW - p2p AU - Krishna, Stefan AU - Gummadi, Krishna AU - Gribble, Steven PY - 2002/// UR - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.18.6611 ER -