List of Illustrations

1. Client requesting a document from a web server
2. Napster client querying directory server and downloading file
3. Gnutella servent performing a query
4. Pseudo code for a Pong caching scheme
5. Sample response from a DNS query
6. P-Grid network connection establishment order
7. Pseudo-code for responsibility exchange in P-Grid
8. Pseudo-code for P-Grid searches
9. The giFT bridge with front- and backends
10. OpenFT network structure
11. Messages received throughout Gnutella session 1
12. Bytes received throughout Gnutella session 1
13. Messages received throughout Gnutella session 2
14. Bytes received throughout Gnutella session 2
15. Messages received throughout Gnutella session 3
16. Bytes received throughout Gnutella session 3
17. Messages sent throughout Gnutella session 1
18. Bytes sent throughout Gnutella session 1
19. Messages sent throughout Gnutella session 2
20. Bytes sent throughout Gnutella session 2
21. Messages sent throughout Gnutella session 3
22. Bytes sent throughout Gnutella session 3
23. Number of erroneous Pong messages received in session 1
24. Number of erroneous Pong messages received in session 2
25. Number of erroneous Pong messages received in session 3
26. Possible DTD for metadata queries
27. Example of a meta-deta query
28. Response DTD for metadata queries
29. Example of a metadata query response
30. Example of a peerinfo XML request
31. Example of a list XML response