On the Interplay between Content Popularity and Performance in P2P Systems

Peer-to-peer swarming, as used by BitTorrent, is one of the de facto solutions for content dissemination in today's Internet. By leveraging resources provided by users, peer-to-peer swarming is a simple and efficient mechanism for content distribution. In this paper we survey recent work on peer-to-peer swarming, relating content popularity to three performance metrics of such systems: fairness, content availability/ self-sustainability and scalability.

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