TY  - CHAP
EP  - 989
T2  - Global Telecommunications Conference. GLOBECOM '05
N1  - Global Telecommunications Conference, held in St. Louis (USA), 28 Nov.- 2 Dec. 2005
ID  - eprints2560
N2  - BitTorrent is today one of the largest P2P systems which allows file sharing for Internet users. Very little effort has been dedicated to this target up to now. The goal of this paper is to develop an analytical model of a free-rider in a BitTorrent network. Unlike previous analytical models which capture the behavior of the network as a whole, the proposed model is able to analyze the performance from the user perspective. The model is applied to a case study to evaluate performance in a real case, and to obtain some insights into the influence of BitTorrent parameters on system performance.
SP  - 985
A1  - Barbera, Mario
A1  - Lombardo, Alfio
A1  - Schembra, Giovanni
A1  - Tribastone, Mirco
SN  - 0-7803-9414-3 
PB  - IEEE
UR  - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=1577784&isnumber=33286
TI  - A Markov model of a freerider in a BitTorrent P2P network
AV  - none
Y1  - 2005/11//
KW  - Analytical models; IP networks; Intelligent networks; Internet; Peer to peer computing; Performance analysis; Spine; Stochastic processes; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control
ER  -