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Peer-assisted online storage and distribution: modeling and server strategies

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Ye Sun,

Fangming Liu,

Bo Li,

Baochun LiAuthors Info & Claims

NOSSDAV '09: Proceedings of the 18th international workshop on Network and operating systems support for digital audio and video

Pages 13 - 18

https://doi.org/10.1145/1542245.1542249

Published: 03 June 2009 Publication History

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Peer-assisted online storage and distribution systems have recently enjoyed large-scale deployment gaining increased popularity for multimedia content sharing in the Internet. Such systems typically deploy dedicated servers while effectively leveraging peer bandwidth in a complementary fashion, in order to guarantee adequate levels of service quality and minimize server cost. In this paper, motivated by our recent empirical study on a real-world system, FS2You, we develop a mathematical model to characterize and understand peer-assisted online storage systems serving multiple files of different popularity. Specifically, we examine and compare representative server bandwidth allocation strategies, and investigate the critical performance metrics and factors. We demonstrate that different server strategies may lead to remarkably different service qualities in terms of average downloading times, peer satisfaction levels and service quality differentiation. In particular, the current server strategy in FS2You is able to offer system-wide average downloading times comparable to the theoretical bound derived from our model.

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Peer-assisted online storage and distribution: modeling and server strategies
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NOSSDAV '09: Proceedings of the 18th international workshop on Network and operating systems support for digital audio and video

June 2009

142 pages

ISBN:9781605584331

DOI:10.1145/1542245

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National University of Singapore, Singapore
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Purdue University, USA

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