Re: Why competing Gnutella clients help LimeWire

> On 5/7/07, Bill Pringlemeir <bpringlemeir@...> wrote:
>> The paper "Improving Lookup Performance over a
>> Widely-Deployed DHT" is helpful in understanding Kademlia.  It also
>> suggests many improvements.
 
>> Unfortunately, it is unpublished, but some version are available.

> "Daniel Stutzbach" <agthorr@...> wrote:

> Actually, it was published in the proceedings of INFOCOM 2006:
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1177084&dl=&coll=&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618

That paper is about "ionsampler".  It is about how to "crawl" a
network with minimum effort to get topology information.  It is not
the paper on Kad and eDonkey. That paper analyzes the k-buckets being
used in that network, showing Kad uses a "split symbol" k-bucket
system.  This paper is helpful in understanding Kademlia, when used
with the original paper by Petar Maymounkov and David Mazières.

They were both interesting.

Thanks,
Bill Pringlemeir.