Application-layer traffic analysis of a peer-to-peer system

IEEE Internet Computing

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 70-76

  Tutsch, Dietmar ^a   Babin, Gilbert ^b   Kropf, Peter ^c  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b HEC MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Fractals; Gnutella; Gnutella protocol; Inter arrival times; Internet; Network traffic analysis; P2P; Peer to peer computing; peer to peer; Peer to peer network; Protocols; Reactive power; self similarity; Shape; Traffic control; Traffic shape

Indexed keywords

BUFFER SIZES; FRACTALS; GNUTELLA; GNUTELLA PROTOCOL; IMPROVED PERFORMANCE; INTER-ARRIVAL TIMES; INTERNET; LIMEWIRE; NETWORK DESIGNERS; NETWORK TRAFFIC ANALYSIS; P2P; PEER TO PEER COMPUTING; PEER-TO-PEER; PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK; PEER-TO-PEER SYSTEMS; PROTOCOLS; REACTIVE POWER; SELF-SIMILAR; SELF-SIMILAR TRAFFIC; SELF-SIMILARITY; SHAPE; TRAFFIC ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC BEHAVIOR; TRAFFIC CHARACTERIZATION; TRAFFIC CONTROL; TRAFFIC SHAPE; VARIANCE-TIME PLOT;

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 52249097844     PISSN: 10897801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MIC.2008.93     Document Type: Article

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