Title :
Modeling bittorrent-like peer-to-peer systems
Author :
Liu, Ziqian ; Chen, Changjia
Author_Institution :
Beijing Jiaotong Univ.
fDate :
7/1/2006 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
We propose a statistical model to describe the evolution of BitTorrent, one of the most popular peer-to-peer applications. Our model is validated against the real traces obtained from the Internet, and the results show that the computed traces are highly consistent with the real ones.
Keywords :
Internet; peer-to-peer computing; statistical analysis; BitTorrent; Internet; peer-to-peer system; statistical model; Bandwidth; Differential equations; Internet; Laplace equations; Mathematical model; Motion pictures; Peer to peer computing; Performance analysis; Probability; Uniform resource locators;
Journal_Title :
Communications Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LCOM.2006.224404
