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Within the last few years, starting with the introduction of Napster in May 1999, the disruptive technology of Peer-to-Peer networking has encountered an enormous growth. Today the traffic caused by Peer-to-Peer networks represents a significant portion in the Internet. For example in the German Research Network (Deutsches Forschungsnetz DFN) Peer-to-Peer causes up to 60 percent of the traffic [210]. Similar trends can be observed in other networks e.g. in the Abilene backbone [42].
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Eberspächer, J., Schollmeier, R. (2005). 3. Past and Future. In: Steinmetz, R., Wehrle, K. (eds) Peer-to-Peer Systems and Applications. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3485. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11530657_3
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