Missing Piece Issue and Upload Strategies in Flashcrowds and P2P-assisted Filesharing Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:917504, abstract = {Peer-to-peer networks provide better scalability for the filesharing applications they underlie. Unlike traditional server-based approach such as FTP, maintaining a constant QoS with a fixed number of servers seems feasible, whatever the number of peers involved. However, a P2P filesharing network sometimes happens to saturate, notably in a semi-P2P filesharing architecture or during flashcrowds phase, and scalability may fail. Even "smart" networks can encounter the whole file but one piece downloaded case, which we call starvation. We suggest a simple and versatile filesharing model. It applies to all pieces-oriented filesharing protocols used in softwares such as MlDonkey or BitTorrent. Simulations of this model show that starvation may occur even during flashcrowds. We propose a theoretical explanation for the so-called starvation phenomenum.}, author = {Mathieu, F. and Reynier, J.}, citeulike-article-id = {917504}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1602245}, journal = {Telecommunications, 2006. AICT-ICIW '06. International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services/Advanced International Conference on}, keywords = {filesharing, flashcrowds, p2p}, pages = {112}, posted-at = {2006-10-30 09:00:14}, priority = {2}, title = {Missing Piece Issue and Upload Strategies in Flashcrowds and P2P-assisted Filesharing}, url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1602245}, year = {2006} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:917504 L3 - citeulike-article-id:917504 N2 - Peer-to-peer networks provide better scalability for the filesharing applications they underlie. Unlike traditional server-based approach such as FTP, maintaining a constant QoS with a fixed number of servers seems feasible, whatever the number of peers involved. However, a P2P filesharing network sometimes happens to saturate, notably in a semi-P2P filesharing architecture or during flashcrowds phase, and scalability may fail. Even "smart" networks can encounter the whole file but one piece downloaded case, which we call starvation. We suggest a simple and versatile filesharing model. It applies to all pieces-oriented filesharing protocols used in softwares such as MlDonkey or BitTorrent. Simulations of this model show that starvation may occur even during flashcrowds. We propose a theoretical explanation for the so-called starvation phenomenum. JF - Telecommunications, 2006. AICT-ICIW '06. International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services/Advanced International Conference on EP - 112 TI - Missing Piece Issue and Upload Strategies in Flashcrowds and P2P-assisted Filesharing SP - 112 KW - filesharing KW - flashcrowds KW - p2p AU - Mathieu, F AU - Reynier, J PY - 2006/// UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1602245 ER -