Deployment of a Large-scale Peer-to-Peer Social Network
Mao Yang
Hua Chen
Ben Y. Zhao
Yafei Dai
Zheng Zhang
First Workshop on Real Large Distributed Systems (WORLDS 2004)
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Paper Abstract
We present the design and architecture of the Maze file-sharing and
social network. Maze is one of the first large-scale
deployments of an academic research project, with over 210,000 registered
users and more than 10,000 users online at any time, sharing over 140
million files. Maze includes an evolving incentive structure, and
simple mechanisms for providing network locality. We outline the Maze
architecture and describe initial results from a measurement study.