- Petar Maymounkov and David Mazières. July 2002. "Kademlia: A Peer-to-peer Information System Based on the XOR Metric" (PDF)
- Petar Maymounkov and David Mazières. March 2002. "Kademlia: A Peer-to-peer Information System Based on the XOR Metric". In Electronic Proceedings for the 1st International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems. (PDF)
- Daniel Stutzbach and Reza Rejaie. 2006. "Improving Lookup Performance over a Widely-Deployed DHT" (PDF)
- Andrew Loewenstern and Arvid Norberg. 2008. "BEP0005: DHT Protocol" (HTML)
- John R. Douceur. 2002. "The Sybil Attack" (PDF)
- Many Kademlia-related topics/references (Wikipedia)