Sun MicrosystemsGnougat is an experimental system for the distribution of static file content using a fully decentralised peer-to-peer network on the Internet. The basic premise for the system is that a content-centred approach using hash keys to uniquely identify portions of files called chunks will provide more flexibility to each node in the system to act to benefit the system.
Index Terms:
Gnougat, distributed, filesystem, peer-to-peer, p2p, hash, chunks, Gnutella, Napster
Citation:
Yaroslav Faybishenko, Gene Kan, "Introduction to Gnougat," p2p, pp.0004, First International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P'01), 2001