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We propose a random-walk-based file search for unstructured P2P networks. In the proposal, each node keeps two pieces of information, one is on the hop-limited shortest path tree rooted at itself and the other is on the indexes of files owned by neighbor nodes, referred to as the file list. A random-walk search is conducted along the concatenation of hop limited shortest path trees. To find a file,...