Modelling peer-to-peer file dissemination
Mortada Mehyar, WeiHsin Gu, Lachlan L. H. Andrew, Steven H. Low · Swinburne figshare (Swinburne University of Technology) · 2006
We investigate a model for peer-to-peer file sharing. The goal is to distribute a file from a server to multiple peears. Each peer has limited upload capacity and can upload previously downloaded pieces to other peears. 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 model provides insite into practical peer-to-peer systems such as Bittorrent.