An open tracing system for P2P file sharing systems

This paper describes the Open P2P tracing system which aims to improve the research community's understanding of P2P file sharing systems by providing continuous and up-to-date traffic data which is anonymized and made freely accessible to all interested parties. It is our hope that this open data set will grow over time into a resource capable of exposing trends in P2P network usage and promote research into the socio-technical factors that drive user behaviour on P2P file sharing systems.