Peer-to-Peer Architecture Case Study: Gnutella Network

Peer-to-peer systems (P2P) have emerged as a significant social and technical phenomenon over thelast year. They provide infrastructure for communities that share CPU cycles (e.g., SETI@Home,Entropia) and/or storage space (e.g., Napster, FreeNet, Gnutella), or that support collaborative environments (Groove).


Two factors have fostered the recent explosive growth of such systems: first,the low cost and high availability of large numbers of computing and storage resources, and second,increased network connectivity. As these trends continue, the P2P paradigm is bound to become more popular. Click here to Download…

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