Information Diffusion in eDonkey Filesharing Networks
Tobias Hoßfeld, Kenji Leibnitz, Rastin Pries, Kurt Tutschku, Phuoc Tran-Gia, and Krysztof Pawlikowski
Research Report 341
Abstract
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) applications have become highly popular in today's Internet due to the spread of file
sharing platforms such as KaZaa, eDonkey, and BitTorrent. P2P technologies have emerged from disruptive,
grey-scale applications to developments of business-cases. In this paper we investigate the diffusion behavior
in an eDonkey-like system. We use non-stationary simulation techniques to investigate how a file is spread out
in such a P2P environment. The influence of parameters like sharing probability, request arrival rate, or file
size on the diffusion process is also investigated.