Stability of a peer-to-peer communication system

DOI10.1145/1993806.1993867MaRDI QIDQ2943409zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ji Zhu, Bruce Hajek

Publication date 11 September 2015

Published in Proceedings of the 30th annual ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS symposium on Principles of distributed computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.2753

zbMATH Keywords

Markov processbranching processpeer to peerFoster-Lyapunov stabilitymissing piece syndromerandom peer contactrandom useful piece upload

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability in computer science (algorithm analysis, random structures, phase transitions, etc.) (68Q87) Graph theory (including graph drawing) in computer science (68R10) Lyapunov and other classical stabilities (Lagrange, Poisson, (L^p, l^p), etc.) in control theory (93D05) Network design and communication in computer systems (68M10) Distributed systems (68M14) Network protocols (68M12)

Abstract: This paper focuses on the stationary portion of file download in an unstructured peer-to-peer network, which typically follows for many hours after a flash crowd initiation. The model includes the case that peers can have some pieces at the time of arrival. The contribution of the paper is to identify how much help is needed from the seeds, either fixed seeds or peer seeds (which are peers remaining in the system after obtaining a complete collection) to stabilize the system. The dominant cause for instability is the missing piece syndrome, whereby one piece becomes very rare in the network. It is shown that stability can be achieved with only a small amount of help from peer seeds--even with very little help from a fixed seed, peers need dwell as peer seeds on average only long enough to upload one additional piece. The region of stability is insensitive to the piece selection policy. Network coding can substantially increase the region of stability in case a portion of the new peers arrive with randomly coded pieces.

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