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Modelling P2P Networks

Posted by michael on from the purty-pictures dept.

Nathan Kennedy writes: "Mihajlo A. Jovanovic did his Master's project at the University of Cincinnati on modelling P2P networks with Gnutella as a case study. You view his project along with source code, stunningly pretty pictures, an applet and a paper on scalability."

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  1. Visuals by Mattygfunk · · Score: 2, Insightful
    All of those visualizations seem like every other visual representation of the internet.

    This doesn't look any more interesting just because it's Gnutella.

  2. Re:Interesting... by jsmyth · · Score: 1, Insightful
    The pictures are cool but wouldn't one of the Fasttrack [fasttrack.nu] based P2P networks be a better example? ...Can anyone enlighten me as to why Gnutella would be better?

    Three possible reasons I can think of:

    • Gnutella's more widely known, and would generate more interest in the researcher's peer group. We all know academia's all about interested peer groups :-)
    • The researcher may have been more familiar with Gnutella
    • Gnutella's been around for longer, and is less centralised (if such a comparison is possible in the P2P world), has more diverse clients on different OSs, and is in continual development in so many different projects. The research was on a protocol and distributed application, and gnutella matches these in a fairly well known way.

    There may be more, but research is tough, and any shortcuts to getting data are usually welcomed with open arms...

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  3. Re:Someone is looking at this page and... by gazbo · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A) No, they are not.

    B) That is a masters dissertation? Fuck me, I wish I could have written my dissertation as a couple of pages of HTML. Education must be a damned site easier over that side of the pond.