• Self-organized networks group (Univ. of Notre Dame)
• Internet Ecologies Group (Xerox)
• Information Dynamics (HP Labs)  

Random Papers and Articles

• The power-law of Top500, Matei Ripeanu, October 2002
• Better Networks: Look to Nature, New York Times, September 13, 2001
• Inspiration for optimization from social insect behavior, E. Bonebeau, M. Dirigo, G. Theraulaz,  Nature 406, 39-42, 2000.
• Profit from Peer-to-Peer, The Economist, June 21, 2001.
• Computing Power on Tap, The Economist, June 21, 2001
• First Cells, Then Species, Now the Web, George Johnson, New York Times, December 26, 2000.
• Power Law Distributions in Real and Virtual Worlds  Narushige SHIODE, Michael BATTY, University College London, UK
• The popularity of Gnutella queries and its implications on scalability, Kunwadee Sripanidkulchai, February 2001.
• Comparing Hybrid Peer-to-Peer Systems, Beverly Yang, Hector Garcia-Molina, Technical Report, 2000.

Good overall resource sites for P2P:   

• http://www.openp2p.com
  

Macroscopic analyses of  Internet

• Internet tomography, K. Claffy, T. Monk and D. McRobb, Nature, Jan. 7 1999. 
• CAIDA
  • NetGeo
• Macroscopic analyses of the infrastructure: Measurement and visualization of Internet connectivity and performance, Bradley Huffaker, Marina Fomenkov, David Moore, and kc claffy, CAIDA/SDSC/UCSD, PAM2001 A workshop on Passive and Active Measurements, Amsterdam, April 23-24, 2001.
• http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~fendtang/646report.html

 P2P Projects/Applications

Sites with info on Gnutella network / crawlers:

• Laboratory for Networks and Applied Graph Theory, U. of Cincinnati.
• http://home.attbi.com/~gregory.bray/

Other:

• IBM's smart networking project

Last updated: 9/9/02 by matei at cs dot uchicago dot edu