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Kademlia

Summary

Kademlia is a peer-to-peer distributed hash table described in a 2002 paper by Petar Maymounkov and David Mazières.

Verified Facts

• The paper "Kademlia: A Peer-to-Peer Information System Based on the XOR Metric" was published in 2002.
• The paper is authored by Petar Maymounkov and David Mazières.

Historical Context

This page is currently a seed record. Broader historical context should compare Kademlia with other distributed hash table systems only after those sources are added.

Technical Analysis

Technical analysis has not yet been drafted. Future work should summarize the XOR metric, routing behavior, and fault-tolerance claims directly from the Kademlia paper.

Relationships

• TOPIC-KADEMLIA cites SRC-KADEMLIA-PAPER.

Sources

• SRC-KADEMLIA-PAPER: Kademlia: A Peer-to-Peer Information System Based on the XOR Metric.

Research Debt

• Add pages for distributed hash tables and peer-to-peer networking.
• Verify and document later real-world uses of Kademlia.
• Add relationships to DHT, peer-to-peer, and content-addressing topics after those pages exist.