A complex network model based on the Gnutella protocol

Xiaoguang Qi, Guang Yue, Liang Zhang and Mingfeng He

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2009, vol. 388, issue 18, 3955-3960

Abstract: Gnutella is one of the basic protocols for P2P software. In this paper, a novel network model based on Gnutella is introduced. The mechanism of this network is based on resource occupancy and search activities of peers. As for the structure, the power-law exponent of in-degree γin≈4.2, the length of the average shortest path 〈l〉=57.74, and the diameter of the network is 156; these topological properties of the proposed structure differ from known results.

Keywords: Peer-to-peer; Gnutella; Complex networks; Resource searching; Scale-free (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2009.06.007

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