An analysis of peer-to-peer file-sharing system queries

Linh Thai Nguyen, Dongmei Jia, Wai Gen Yee, Ophir Frieder

Abstract: Many studies focus on the Web, but yet, few focus on peer-to-peer file-sharing system queries despite their massive scale in terms of Internet traffic. We analyzed several million queries collected on the Gnutella network and differentiated our findings from those of Web queries.