On the global stability of a peer-to-peer network model

• In this paper, we analyze the stability properties of a system of ordinary differential equations describing the thermodynamic limit of a microscopic and stochastic model for file sharing in a peer-to-peer network introduced by Kesidis et al. We show, under certain assumptions, that this BitTorrent-like system has a unique locally attracting equilibrium point which is also computed explicitly. Local and global stability are also shown.

Subject headings

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Matematik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Mathematics (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Fluid limit

Peer-to-peer networks

Fixed points

Stability

Global stability

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