Gnutella Network — Cumulative (All Snapshots)
A Gnutella peer-to-peer network dataset combining the 9 SNAP snapshots of August 2002 (Ripeanu et al.): 191,327 nodes and 506,442 directed edges in all. SNAP numbers the hosts of each snapshot separately, so the snapshots sit side by side in one graph with node IDs of the form snapshot:host, and no host is linked across snapshots. Suitable for temporal network analysis, graph evolution, and peer-to-peer network resilience.
Cite this dataset at
gnutella-cumulative.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 191,327 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-cumulative- 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
- 191,327
- Nodes
- 191,327
- Edges
- 506,442 (directed)
- Nodes are
- peer node
- Edges are
- p2p connection
- Attributes
- nodes have no attributes; edges have no attributes
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2002-08-04 to 2002-08-31 (2000s)
- Tasks
- From the graph: link prediction, community detection
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://snap.stanford.edu/data/p2p-Gnutella31.html link checked
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 5.7 MB across 9 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 — Cumulative (All Snapshots) [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 — Cumulative (All Snapshots). 2002, doi.org/10.1145/2487788.2488173.