Impact of Inner Parameters and Overlay Structure on the Performance of BitTorrent

@inproceedings{UrvoyKeller06Impact, abstract = {In this paper we adopt a simulation approach to study the performance of the BitTorrent protocol in terms of the entropy that qualifies a torrent and the structure of the overlay used to distribute the content. We find that the entropy of a torrent, defined as the diversity that characterizes the distribution of pieces of the content, plays an important role for the system to achieve optimal performance. We then relate the performance of BitTorrent with the characteristics of the distribution...}, author = {Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume and Michiardi, Pietro }, booktitle = {9th IEEE Global Internet Symposium 2006}, citeulike-article-id = {1477106}, journal = {9th IEEE Global Internet Symposium 2006}, keywords = {bittorrent, p2p, simulation, systems}, month = {April}, posted-at = {2007-07-24 16:06:31}, priority = {5}, title = {Impact of Inner Parameters and Overlay Structure on the Performance of BitTorrent}, url = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/742824.html}, year = {2006} }

TY - CONF ID - UrvoyKeller06Impact L3 - citeulike-article-id:1477106 TI - Impact of Inner Parameters and Overlay Structure on the Performance of BitTorrent T2 - 9th IEEE Global Internet Symposium 2006 JF - 9th IEEE Global Internet Symposium 2006 N2 - In this paper we adopt a simulation approach to study the performance of the BitTorrent protocol in terms of the entropy that qualifies a torrent and the structure of the overlay used to distribute the content. We find that the entropy of a torrent, defined as the diversity that characterizes the distribution of pieces of the content, plays an important role for the system to achieve optimal performance. We then relate the performance of BitTorrent with the characteristics of the distribution... KW - bittorrent KW - p2p KW - simulation KW - systems AU - Urvoy-Keller, Guillaume AU - Michiardi, Pietro PY - 2006/04// UR - http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/742824.html ER -