Gnutella Network — August 25, 2002
A Gnutella (August 25, 2002) dataset of 22,687 nodes and 54,705 edges, collected by Ripeanu et al. via Gnutella crawl (2002). Each record contains directed peer-to-peer connections in the Gnutella network. The dataset is notable for its snapshot from August 25, 2002, part of a temporal sequence of 9 snapshots. Intended for research into peer-to-peer network analysis, temporal graph evolution, and network resilience studies.
Cite this dataset at
gnutella-25.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 22,687 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.
Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
gnutella-25- Authors
- Ripeanu, M.; Foster, I.; Iamnitchi, A.
- Year
- 2002
- Source paper
- Mapping the Gnutella Network: Properties of Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Systems
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.1145/2487788.2488173
- License
- Academic use (SNAP Stanford) (LicenseRef-Research-Only)
- Records
- 22,687
- Nodes
- 22,687
- Edges
- 54,705 (directed)
- Nodes are
- peer node
- Edges are
- p2p connection
- Attributes
- nodes have no attributes; edges have no attributes
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2002-08-25 (2000s)
- Tasks
- From the graph: link prediction, community detection
- Region
- Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://snap.stanford.edu/data/p2p-Gnutella25.html link checked
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 631.8 KB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
Citations
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Citation data from Semantic Scholar, retrieved 2026-10-22.
How to cite
BibTeX
@misc{echo2026,
title = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
year = {2026},
url = {https://echo.directory},
note = {Syracuse University}
}
@article{ripeanu2002mapping,
title = {Mapping the Gnutella Network: Properties of Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Systems},
author = {Ripeanu, M. and Foster, I. and Iamnitchi, A.},
journal = {IEEE Internet Computing},
year = {2002}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Ripeanu, M., Foster, I., & Iamnitchi, A. (2002). Gnutella Network — August 25, 2002 [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1145/2487788.2488173
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Ripeanu, M., et al. Gnutella Network — August 25, 2002. 2002, doi.org/10.1145/2487788.2488173.