Making gnutella-like P2P systems scalable.

Napster pioneered the idea of peer-to-peer file sharing, and supported it with a centralized file search facility. Subsequent P2P systems like Gnutella adopted decentralized search algorithms. However, Gnutella's notoriously poor scaling led some to propose distributed hash table solutions to t...

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Published in:Computer communication review. 33, 4 (2003).
Main Author: Chawathe, Yatin
Format: Article
Language:English
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