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International Workshop on Distributed Communities on the Web

DCW 2002: Distributed Communities on the Web pp 84–99Cite as

Experimenting with Gnutella Communities

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Computer networks or distributed systems in general may be regarded as communities where the individual components, be they entire systems, application software or users, interact in a shared environment. Such communities dynamically evolve with components or nodes joining and leaving the system. Their own individual activities affect the community’s behavior and vice versa. This paper discusses various practical experiments undertaken to investigate the behavior of a real system, the Gnutella network, which represents such a community. Gnutella is a distributed Peer-to-Peer data-sharing system without any central control. It turns out that most interactions between nodes do not last long and much of their activity is devoted to finding appropriate partners in the network. The experimental results presented have been obtained from a Java implementation of Gnutella running in the open Internet environment, and thus in unknown and quickly changing network structures heavily depending on chance.

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  1. Computer Science and Operations Research, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

    Jean Vaucher, Peter Kropf & Thierry Jouve

  2. HEC-Montreal, Information Technology, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

    Gilbert Babin

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  1. School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia

    John Plaice

  2. Department of Computer Science and Operations Research, University of Montreal, C.P. 6128 succ. Centre-Ville, Montreal, Quebec, H3C 3J7, Canada

    Peter G. Kropf

  3. Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Ulm, James Frank Ring 0-27, 89069, Ulm, Germany

    Peter Schulthess

  4. Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, 6050 University Avenue, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 1W5, Canada

    Jacob Slonim

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Vaucher, J., Babin, G., Kropf, P., Jouve, T. (2002). Experimenting with Gnutella Communities. In: Plaice, J., Kropf, P.G., Schulthess, P., Slonim, J. (eds) Distributed Communities on the Web. DCW 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2468. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36261-4_10

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