@inproceedings{a82e63b2b2054a1e8ef75ee609e595a5,
title = "Understanding the topologies of BitTorrent networks: A measurement view",
abstract = "BitTorrent (BT) is one of the most popular Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network applications. Most characteristics (except the topology) of BT network have been examined extensively by measurement approaches. In this work, we deploy a measurement system to study the performance-related properties of BT topologies. We also use our measurement system to verify some previous simulation and experiment results obtained by other researchers. Different from previous results, we observe that a BT swarm has short distance, low clustering coefficient and Gaussian-like degree-frequency distribution. This indicates that a BT swarm is very close to a random network rather than a scale-free network or a small world. We observe that the diameter of a BT network at the initial stage is small even when 95% of peers use the peer exchange extension but the networks are not fully connected at the steady stages.",
keywords = "BitTorrent, measurement, performance, topology",
author = "Majing Su and Hongli Zhang and Xiaojiang Du and Binxing Fang and Mohsen Guizani",
year = "2012",
doi = "10.1109/GLOCOM.2012.6503408",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781467309219",
series = "Proceedings - IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM",
pages = "1994--1999",
booktitle = "2012 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2012",
note = "2012 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2012 ; Conference date: 03-12-2012 Through 07-12-2012",
}