One of the main reasons of the recent success of peer to peer (P2P) file sharing systems such as BitTorrent is its built-in tit-for-tat mechanism. In this paper, we model the band...
File swarming (or file sharing) is one of the most important applications in P2P networks. In this paper, we propose a stochastic framework to analyze a file swarming system und...
Minghong Lin, Bin Fan, John C. S. Lui, Dah-Ming Ch...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) overlay networks such as BitTorrent and Avalanche are increasingly used for disseminating potentially large files from a server to many end users via the Intern...
In this paper, we show through detailed simulations that BitTorrent can be used to assist a server or content distribution network (CDN) for large-scale streaming delivery. Speci...
Ryan LaFortune, Christopher D. Carothers, William ...
— We consider the problem of distributing a content of finite size to a group of users connected through an overlay network that is built by a peer-to-peer application. The goal...