Analyzing Service Rates for File Transfers in Peer-to-peer File Sharing Systems

摘要

When examining the file transfer performance in a peer-to-peer file sharing system, a fundamental problem is how to describe the service rate for a file transfer.In this paper, the problem is examined by analyzing the distribution of server-like nodes' upstream-bandwidth among their concurrent transfers.A sufficient condition for the service rate, what a receiver obtains for downloading a file, to asymptotically be uniform is presented.On the aggregate service rate for transferring a file in a system, a sufficient condition for it to asymptotically follow a Zipf distribution is presented.These asymptotic equalities are both in the mean square sense.These analyses and the sufficient conditions provide a mathematic base for modeling file transfer processes in peer-to-peer file sharing systems.