Modeling Peer-to-Peer Traffic

Characterizing peer-to-peer traffic

• An Analysis of Internet Content Delivery Systems, by Stefan Saroiu, Krishna P. Gummadi, Richard J. Dunn, Steven D. Gribble, and Henry M. Levy. Proceedings of the Fifth Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 2002), Boston, MA, December 2002.
  This is a detailed measurement study comparing P2P, CDN, and WWW workloads.

• Measurement, Modeling, and Analysis of a Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing Workload, by Krishna P. Gummadi, Richard J. Dunn, Stefan Saroiu, Steven D. Gribble, Henry M. Levy, and John Zahorjan. Proceedings of the 19th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP-19), Bolton Landing, New York, October 2003.
  "Clients' fetch-at-most-once behavior, the creation of new objects, and the addition of new clients to the system are the primary forces that drive multimedia workloads such as Kazaa."

• Are File Swapping Networks Cacheable? Characterizing P2P Traffic, Nathaniel Leibowitz, Aviv Bergman, Roy Ben-Shaul, and Aviv Shavit, 7th International Workshop on Web Content Caching and Distribution (WCW), 2002.
  "This paper measures and analyzes the characteristics of this relatively new type of traffic."

• Mapping Peer Behavior to Packet-level Details: A Framework for Packet-level Simulation of Peer-to-Peer Systems, Q. He, M. Ammar, G. Riley, H. Raj and R. Fujimoto, MASCOTS 2003.
  "GnutellaSim is a scalable packet-level Gnutella simulator that enables the complete evaluation of the Gnutella system with a detailed network model."

• Analyzing Peer-to-Peer Traffic Across Large Networks, by Shubho Sen and Jia Wang, Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Workshop, 2002. (IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, April 2004.)
  "We are developing practical workload models for P2P traffic that can be used to evaluate traffic engineering and provisioning policies for P2P systems."

  Sally Floyd.
  Thanks to Nathaniel Leibowitz and Steve Gribble for pointers to add to this web page.
  Last modified: july 2008