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The KaZaA Overlay: A Measurement Study
Jian Liang
Department of Computer and
Information Science,
Polytechnic University,
Brooklyn, NY, USA 11201
Email: jliang@cis.poly.edu
Rakesh Kumar
Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering,
Polytechnic University,
Brooklyn, NY, USA 11201
Email: rkumar04@utopia.poly.edu
Keith W. Ross
Department of Computer and
Information Science,
Polytechnic University,
Brooklyn, NY, USA 11201
Email: ross@poly.edu
September 15, 2004
Abstract
Both in terms of number of participating users and in tra±c volume, KaZaA is
one of the most important applications in the Internet today. Nevertheless, because
KaZaA is proprietary and uses encryption, little is understood about KaZaA\'s
overlay structure and dynamics, its messaging protocol, and its index manage-
ment. We have built two measurement apparatus - the KaZaA Sni±ng Platform
and the KaZaA Probing Tool - to unravel many of the mysteries behind KaZaA.
We deploy the apparatus to study KaZaA\'s overlay structure and dynamics, its
neighbor selection, its use of dynamic port numbers to circumvent ¯rewalls, and
its index management. Although this study does not fully solve the KaZaA puzzle,
it nevertheless leads to a coherent description of KaZaA and its overlay. Further-
more, we leverage the measurement results to set forth a number of key principles
for the design of a successful unstructured P2P overlay. The measurement results
and resulting design principles in this paper should be useful for future architects
of P2P overlay networks as well as for engineers managing ISPs.
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1 Introduction
On a typical day, KaZaA has more than 3 million active users sharing over 5,000
terabytes of content. On the University of Washington...
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