  Kademlia is a decentralized overlay network, up to now mainly used for highly
scalable file sharing applications. Due to its distributed nature, it is free
from single points of failure. Communication can happen over redundant network
paths, which makes information distribution with Kademlia resilient against
failing nodes and attacks. This makes it applicable to more scenarios than
Internet file sharing. In this paper, we simulate Kademlia networks with
varying parameters and analyze the number of node-disjoint paths in the
network, and thereby the network connectivity. A high network connectivity is
required for communication and system-wide adaptation even when some nodes or
communication channels fail or get compromised by an attacker. With our
results, we show the influence of these parameters on the connectivity and,
therefore, the resilience against failing nodes and communication channels.
