Telecommunications Science ›› 2011, Vol. 27 ›› Issue (1): 30-35.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-0801.2011.01.007

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A Study on the Behaviors of Peers in BitTorrent System

Lin Ye,Hongli Zhang,Majing Su,Fei Li   

  1. Computer Network and Information Security Research Center,Harbin Institute of Technology,Harbin 150001,China
  • Online:2011-01-15 Published:2011-01-15

Abstract:

Measuring and characterizing peer-to-peer file-sharing systems will benefit the optimization and management of P2P systems. The designs of current P2P network are getting more complicated,and several operational mechanisms bring about the incompleteness of data or long period in measurement,such as BitTorrent system. To solve the problem,three levels are abstracted from BitTorrent system in the view of measurement in this paper,including index,peer and content. Furthermore,this paper focuses on the difficult problems in every level,and meanwhile a measurement system for BitTorrent is designed. On these bases,a measurement was performed continuously,and the behaviors of peers that contain the evolution of peers and the model of peer arrival are mainly studied. The results demonstrate that the evolution of peers and the arrival of peers follow a strong periodical law. Therefore,an improved model of peer arrival is proposed,which can be fitted well with actual data and perfect the law of peer arrival.

Key words: peer-to-peer, BitTorrent, measurement, evolution, peer arrival

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