User-experience-based availability analysis model and its application in P2P storage systems

Data availability is one of the most important properties of peer-to-peer (P2P) storage systems.Availability analysis model and data placement are two key design choices.Users in P2P storage system are both providers and customers.This characteristic determines that the availability analysis must be user-centric,and thereby enhance the quality of service and decrease the system cost.The popular approach in recent studies is simple random placement with steady-state model,which has the following drawbacks:1)...