Application-layer traffic analysis of a peer-to-peer system
Author(s)
Date issued
2008
In
IEEE Internet Computing
Vol
5
No
12
From page
70
To page
77
Reviewed by peer
1
Subjects
self-similarity Gnutella protocol Gnutella peer-to-peer network P2P network traffic analysis inter-arrival times traffic shape peer-to-peer
Abstract
Characterizing traffic behavior helps to optimize the network architecture for improved performance. Using a modified LimeWire servent ( for both the server and client) and a variance-time plot for traffic characterization, the authors analyze the Gnutella protocol's traffic shape and find that the messages exhibit a self-similar shape. This result shows network designers that they need to consider the self-similar traffic shape in their set-up - for instance, by introducing appropriate buffer sizes.
Publication type
journal article