Title :
Optimal Strategies for Efficient Peer-to-Peer File Sharing
Author :
Mehyar, M. ; WeiHsin Gu ; Low, S.H. ; Effros, Michelle ; Ho, Tracey
Author_Institution :
Eng. & Appl. Sci., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA
Abstract :
We study a model for peer-to-peer file sharing. The goal is to distribute a file from a server to multiple peers. We assume the upload capacity of each peer is the only bottleneck. We examine the finish times of peers under different transmission strategies. Pareto optimality, min-max finish time, and optimal average finish time of the model are studied. We believe the results provide fundamental insights into practical peer-to-peer systems such as BitTorrent.
Keywords :
Pareto optimisation; minimax techniques; peer-to-peer computing; BitTorrent; Pareto optimality; efficient peer-to-peer file sharing; min-max finish time; optimal average finish time; transmission strategies; upload capacity; Broadcasting; Context modeling; DSL; Data analysis; IP networks; Internet; Mathematical analysis; Peer to peer computing; Web server; Mathematical Analysis/Optimization; Peer-to-Peer networks;
Conference_Titel :
Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2007. ICASSP 2007. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Honolulu, HI
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0727-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICASSP.2007.367325
