Who knows where can I get the Gnutella trace data?
thanks.

... specifically what exactly are you looking for though?

Why would you need that?

because we are engaging a research about efficent searching in peer-to-peer network. But now I think maybe we have to collect the trace by ourselves.

Like the RIAA?

what is RIAA?

Record Industry Association of America.

They are the people that shutdown p2p client and servers.

No, we are graduate students in computer science, my research interest is distributed computing system. we want to push P2P systems, not restrict it. P2P systems are promising because they require no centrailized servers and no precise control over network topology or data placement. however, the flooding-based query algo. does not scale, because it generates a large amount of traffic and large systems will quickly become overwhelmed by the query-induced load. our goal is to to study new algo. for efficent searching and indexing in P2P systems.

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