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creators_name: Barbera, Mario
creators_name: Lombardo, Alfio
creators_name: Schembra, Giovanni
creators_name: Tribastone, Mirco
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creators_id: mirco.tribastone@imtlucca.it
title: An analytical model of a BitTorrent peer
ispublished: pub
subjects: QA75
divisions: CSA
full_text_status: none
keywords: Analytical models; Demography; Internet; Peer to peer computing; Performance analysis; Performance evaluation; Protocols; Sensitivity analysis; Steady-state; Stochastic processes
note: Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing, held in Naples (Italy), February 7-9, 2007
abstract: 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
date: 2007-02
publisher: IEEE
pagerange: 482-489
event_title: Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing, 2007. PDP '07. 15th EUROMICRO International Conference on
id_number: 10.1109/PDP.2007.19
refereed: TRUE
isbn: 0-7695-2784-1 
book_title: Proceedings of the 15th EUROMICRO International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing, 2007. PDP '07
official_url: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=4135314&isnumber=4135240
citation:   Barbera, Mario and Lombardo, Alfio and Schembra, Giovanni and Tribastone, Mirco  An analytical model of a BitTorrent peer.   In:  Proceedings of the 15th EUROMICRO International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing, 2007. PDP '07.   IEEE, pp. 482-489.  ISBN 0-7695-2784-1       (2007)