TY  - CHAP
EP  - 489
PB  - IEEE
SN  - 0-7695-2784-1 
T2  - Proceedings of the 15th EUROMICRO International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing, 2007. PDP '07
A1  - Barbera, Mario
A1  - Lombardo, Alfio
A1  - Schembra, Giovanni
A1  - Tribastone, Mirco
SP  - 482
Y1  - 2007/02//
TI  - An analytical model of a BitTorrent peer
ID  - eprints2563
AV  - none
KW  - Analytical models; Demography; Internet; Peer to peer computing; Performance analysis; Performance evaluation; Protocols; Sensitivity analysis; Steady-state; Stochastic processes
N2  - In this paper we propose a Markovian model of BitTorrent. Unlike already developed works which capture demographic dynamics, it focuses on the behavior of individual peers. To this end, we center our attention on a generic peer, called tagged peer (TP); for each possible logical state of a BT peer-to-peer connection maintained by the TP, we consider a stochastic process which counts the number of such links, and characterize them according to their state. Validation is carried out and steady-state analysis is performed in order to illustrate how performance evaluation can be extracted from our model
UR  - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=4135314&isnumber=4135240
N1  - Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing, held in Naples (Italy), February 7-9, 2007
ER  -