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Conference Papers Year : 2008

A Queueing System for Modeling a File Sharing Principle

Abstract

We investigate in this paper the performance of a simple file sharing principle. For this purpose, we consider a system composed of N peers becoming active at exponential random times; the system is initiated with only one server offering the desired file and the other peers after becoming active try to download it. Once the file has been downloaded by a peer, this one immediately becomes a server. To investigate the transient behavior of this file sharing system, we study the instant when the system shifts from a congested state where all servers available are saturated by incoming demands to a state where a growing number of servers are idle. In spite of its apparent simplicity, this queueing model (with a random number of servers) turns out to be quite difficult to analyze. A formulation in terms of an urn and ball model is proposed and corresponding scaling results are derived. These asymptotic results are then compared against simulations.
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inria-00262405 , version 1 (11-03-2008)
inria-00262405 , version 2 (11-03-2008)

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  • HAL Id : inria-00262405 , version 2
  • ARXIV : 0803.1610

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Florian Simatos, Philippe Robert, Fabrice Guillemin. A Queueing System for Modeling a File Sharing Principle. ACM Sigmetrics : International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, Jun 2008, Annapolis, United States. ⟨inria-00262405v2⟩

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