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Measurements on movie distribution behaviour in peer-to-peer networks

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  • Author(s): C. Hu 1, 2 ; X. Wang 3 ; X. Wang 3 ; K. He 4 ; B. Liu 4
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    • Affiliations: 1: Ministry of Education Key Lab For Intelligent Networks and Network Security, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, People's Republic of China
      2: State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, People's Republic of China
      3: School of Electronic Engineering, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland
      4: Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
  • Source: Volume 6, Issue 12, 14 August 2012, p. 1602 – 1610
    DOI:  10.1049/iet-com.2011.0201 , Print ISSN 1751-8628, Online ISSN 1751-8636
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Peer-to-Peer (P2P) mode dominates the way that files are shared over the Internet today. A measurement study on the user behaviour during the P2P file sharing is important and helpful to better understand and design P2P networks. In this study, the authors developed a method to collect information about peers and connections in movie sharing at the BitTorrent client side. Movie is selected as the investigation object since its immense popularity and large size among all the file types over P2P networks. The method proposed in this study can be easily applied to study the distribution behaviour of other types of files. Based on the collected data, the authors have derived 10 observations in three categories: (i) distributions of peers and connections over globe time and local time (after adjustment of time differences); (ii) distributions of peers and connections over geographic areas (at different levels of continents, countries, cities); and (iii) the influence to the above distributions by differences of population, gross domestic product (GDP) and life style.

Inspec keywords: Internet; peer-to-peer computing

Other keywords: globe time; peer-to-peer networks; movie distribution behaviour; P2P file sharing; geographic areas; gross domestic product; Internet; movie sharing; GDP; measurement study; BitTorrent client side; P2P mode; local time

Subjects: Computer communications; Other computer networks

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