Efficient simulation of large-scale P2P networks: Packet-level vs. flow-level simulations

Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Use of P2P, GRid and Agents for the Development of Content Networks, UPGRADE-CN'07

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 9-16

  Eger, Kolja ^a   Hoßfeld, Tobias ^b   Binzenhöfer, Andreas ^b   Kunzmann, Gerald ^c  

^a HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

BitTorrent; Content distribution; Peer to peer; Simulation

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA TRANSFER; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PACKET SWITCHING;

BITTORRENT; CONTENT DISTRIBUTION; PEER-TO-PEER SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 34548088432     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1272980.1272986     Document Type: Conference Paper

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