Queue Model of Leaf Degree Keeping Process in Gnutella Network

Leaf degree keeping process of Gnutella is discussed in this paper. Queue system based on rules of Gnutella protocol are introduced to modeling this process. The leaf degree distributions resulted from the queue system and from our real measurement are compared. The well match of those distributions reveal that the leaf degree distribution in Gnutella network should not be power law or power law like as reported before. It is more likely a distribution driven by certain queue process specified by the protocol.