An Enhanced Gnutella P2P Protocol: A Search Perspective

Although Gnutella is the most popular Peer-to-Peer protocol for file sharing, drawbacks are often found in searching and locating files. They include that (1) a limited number of hosts being searched leads to a limited number of hits; (2) the search result is not accurate due to the search by filename; and (3) an inefficient use of computer resource

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: AINA
• Authors: Sai Ho Kwok, K. Y. Chan
• Keywords: AINA 2004, Computer Networks, N-phase Search, Popular Peer-to-peer Protocol, Search Mechanism