In [7], the authors evaluated the performance of
Gnutella using various flat underlying reactive and proactive routing protocols.
(8) "Governments are good at cutting off the heads of a centrally controlled network like Napster," Satoshi wrote, "but pure P2P networks like
Gnutella and Tor seem to be holding their own." Ibid.
One could also pick from any of a number of other P2P services such as
Gnutella, Kazaa, Scour, Grokster, etc.
An example of such a network is
Gnutella which has no central server but clusters its nodes around so-called "supernodes".
In this research work, we used a well know ad hoc routing protocol Ad hoc On Demand Distance Vector (AODV) under a peer-to-peer network protocol
Gnutella. A cross layer optimization has been made for these protocols to increase the energy efficiency.
A famous example is
Gnutella, a program with a Nutella-sounding name in honor of the passion for the product used to exchange files.
claimed that nearly 70% of
Gnutella users share no files [10].
Investigation shows that: a measurement study of the
Gnutella file sharing network [1] found that approximately 70% of peers provided no files and that approximately 37% of the total files are provided by the top 1% of the peers.
He answered his own question by developing a new p2p network called
Gnutella in 2000.