15th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing (PDP'07)
An Analytical Model of a BitTorrent Peer
Naples, Italy
February 07-February 09
ISBN: 0-7695-2784-1
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.
Citation:
Mario Barbera, Alfio Lombardo, Giovanni Schembra, Mirco Tribastone, "An Analytical Model of a BitTorrent Peer," pdp, pp.482-489, 15th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing (PDP'07), 2007