A arquitetura IP Multimedia Subsystem, proposta pelo consórcio 3rd Generation Partnership Project como base para o suporte à convergência entre telefonia móvel e a Internet, define uma série de elementos arquiteturais, entre os quais, o componente Call Session Control Function e o protocolo Session Initiation Protocol. Session Initiation Protocol é um protocolo da camada de aplicação utilizado para estabelecer, modificar e terminar sessões multimídia entre dispositivos. Em redes baseadas na arquitetura IP Multimedia Subsystem, o Session Initiation Protocol é o responsável pela comunicação entre dispositivos e a rede, e entre os componentes responsáveis pelo gerenciamento de sessão. Nos últimos anos, estudos detectaram degradação de desempenho em redes baseadas na arquitetura IP Multimedia Subsystem em função das características centralizadas do Session Initiation Protocol e dos componentes de gerenciamento de sessão. Este trabalho apresenta uma arquitetura distribuída para redes baseadas em IP Multimedia Subsystem, tendo como fundamento o paradigma de computação paralela baseado em espaço de tuplas onde os servidores são organizados em uma rede P2P, com objetivo de prover uma infraestrutura escalável e tolerante a falhas. A validação da arquitetura em termos de desempenho e escalabilidade se deu através de modelagem formal e simulação com Redes de Petri Coloridas. / The IP Multimedia Subsystem architecture, proposed by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project consortium as basis to support the convergence between mobile networks and the Internet, defines a set of architectural elements, among them, the Call Session Control Function and the Session Initiation Protocol. The Session Initiation Protocol is an application layer protocol used to establish, modify and terminate sessions between devices. On the IP multimedia subsystem based network, the Session Initiation Protocol play a key role on the communication between devices and the network, and between session management components. In the last years, studies have detected a performance bottleneck on IP multimedia subsystem networks due to centralized characteristic of the Session Initiation Protocol and in Session Control components. This work shows a distributed architecture for IP Multimedia Subsystem networks based on the tuple space paradigm, and the servers structured in a P2P network, aiming to achieve a scalable and fault-tolerant infrastructure. The validation of the architecture on the performance and scalability took place through the Coloured Petri Net formal modeling and simulation.

Une grande partie de l’impulsion de diverses technologies d’Internet par les systèmes Pair-à-Pair (Peer-to-Peer ou P2P) peut être vue comme une réaction au détriment du centrage de contenu sur les serveurs devant des clients passifs. Une des caractéristiques distinctives de tout système P2P est ce que nous appelons souvent connectivité directe de bout en bout entre pairs égaux. Le Pair-à-Pair a augmenté les débits des échanges entre des communautés dynamiques des utilisateurs qui tendent à augmenter rapidement. Nous parlons donc de systèmes distribués à large échelle dans lesquels l’information échangée, partagée et recherchée atteint des volumes de plus en plus impressionnants. Dans le cadre de cette thèse, nous nous intéressons essentiellement à la Recherche d'Information dans les systèmes de Recherche d’Information P2P (RIP2P) et plus précisément au problème d'agrégation des résultats dans de tels systèmes. Résoudre le problème d'agrégation en RIP2P de la même manière que sa résolution dans un cadre de Recherche d’Information Distribuée (RID) va manquer beaucoup d’intelligibilité. En effet, ça fait perdre de vue tout un contexte qui a changé en RIP2P, vu le facteur d'échelle et l’absence d’une vision globale sur le système, dans ces réseaux qui s'étendent naturellement à des milliers voire des millions de pairs. Ceci va impliquer notamment la suppression d'un serveur courtier inadéquat dans ce contexte et va soulever le problème de retrouver de nouvelles politiques pour agréger des résultats provenant de pairs hétérogènes dans une liste unique tout en reflétant les attentes de l'utilisateur. Toutes ces raisons nous ont incités à explorer un mécanisme d’agrégation basé sur les profils des utilisateurs déduits de leurs comportements passés suite à leurs interactions avec les résultats d’une requête. Dans cette thèse nos contributions portent sur deux axes complémentaires. D’abord, nous proposons une nouvelle vision d'agrégation de résultats dans un contexte large échelle. Dans ce cadre un modèle de profils et une approche de score hybride à base de profils sont proposés. Ensuite nous avons mis l’accent sur la mise en place d’un cadre d'évaluation de notre approche dans les systèmes à large échelle / A huge part of the impetus of various internet technologies through the Peer-to-Peer (Peer-to-Peer or P2P) system can be seen as a reaction to the content centering detriment on the servers in front of passive clients. One of the distinctive features of any P2P system is what we often call direct connectivity between equal peers. The Peer-to-Peer increased the exchange flows between dynamic communities of users which tend to grow rapidly. We talk, therefore, about large-scale distributed systems in which the exchanged, shared and sought information reaches a more and more impressive volumes. Solving the aggregation problem in P2PIR systems the same way as its resolution in Distributed Information Retrieval (DIR) will miss a lot of intelligibility. In fact, the context has changed in RIP2P, given the scale factor and the lack of a global vision of the system in these networks that extend naturally to thousands or even millions peers. This will involve the removal of a broker server that is inadequate in this context and will raise the problem of finding new policies to aggregate results coming from heterogeneous peers in a single list while reflecting the user’s expectations. All these reasons prompted us to explore an aggregation mechanism based on user profiles deduced from their past behavior due to their interaction with query results. Our contributions, in this thesis, focus on two complementary axes. First, we propose a new vision of results aggregation in a large scale system. In this context, a profiles model and a hybrid score profiles-based approach are proposed. Second, we focused on the development of an evaluation framework of our approach in large-scale systems. In this thesis, we are mainly interested in the Information Retrieval problem in P2P systems (P2PIR) and focusing more specifically on the problem of results’ aggregation in such systems

La sécurisation inhérente aux échanges dans les environnements dynamiques et distribués, dépourvus d’une coordination centrale et dont la topologie change perpétuellement, est un défi majeur. Dans le cadre de cette thèse, on se propose en effet de définir une infrastructure de sécurité adaptée aux contraintes des systèmes P2P actuels. Le premier volet de nos travaux consiste à proposer un intergiciel, appelé SEMOS, qui gère des sessions sécurisées et mobiles. SEMOS permet en effet de maintenir les sessions sécurisées actives et ce, même lorsque la configuration réseau change ou un dysfonctionnement se produit. Cette faculté d’itinérance est rendue possible par la définition d’un nouveau mécanisme de découplage afin de cloisonner l’espace d’adressage de l’espace de nommage ; le nouvel espace de nommage repose alors sur les tables de hachage distribuées (DHT). Le deuxième volet définit un mécanisme distribué et générique d’échange de clés adapté à l’architecture P2P. Basé sur les chemins disjoints et l’échange de bout en bout, le procédé de gestion des clés proposé est constitué d’une combinaison du protocole Diffie-Hellman et du schéma à seuil(k, n) de Shamir. D’une part, l’utilisation des chemins disjoints dans le routage des sous-clés compense l’absence de l’authentification certifiée, par une tierce partie, consubstantielle au protocole Diffie-Hellman et réduit, dans la foulée, sa vulnérabilité aux attaques par interception. D’autre part, l’extension de l’algorithme Diffie-Hellman par ajout du schéma à seuil (k, n) renforce substantiellement sa robustesse notamment dans la segmentation des clés et/ou en cas de défaillances accidentelles ou délibérées dans le routage des sous-clés. Enfin, les sessions sécurisées mobiles sont évaluées dans un réseau virtuel et mobile et la gestion des clés est simulée dans un environnement générant des topologies P2P aléatoires. / Securing communications in distributed dynamic environments, that lack a central coordination point and whose topology changes constantly, is a major challenge.We tackle this challenge of today’s P2P systems. In this thesis, we propose to define a security infrastructure that is suitable to the constraints and issues of P2P systems. The first part of this document presents the design of SEMOS, our middleware solution for managing and securing mobile sessions. SEMOS ensures that communication sessions are secure and remain active despite the possible disconnections that can occur when network configurations change or a malfunction arises. This roaming capability is implemented via the definition of a new addressing space in order to split up addresses for network entities with their names ; the new naming space is then based on distributed hash tables(DHT). The second part of the document presents a generic and distributed mechanism for a key exchange method befitting to P2P architectures. Building on disjoint paths andend-to-end exchange, the proposed key management protocol consists of a combination of the Diffie-Hellman algorithm and the Shamir’s (k, n) threshold scheme. On the onehand, the use of disjoint paths to route subkeys offsets the absence of the third party’s certified consubstantial to Diffie-Hellman and reduces, at the same time, its vulnerability to interception attacks. On the other hand, the extension of the Diffie-Hellman algorithm by adding the threshold (k, n) scheme substantially increases its robustness, in particular in key splitting and / or in the case of accidental or intentional subkeys routing failures. Finally, we rely on a virtual mobile network to assess the setup of secure mobile sessions.The key management mechanism is then evaluated in an environment with randomly generated P2P topologies.

Actuellement, nous constatons une augmentation de demande de services vidéo sur les réseaux P2P. Ces réseaux jouent un rôle primordial dans la transmission de contenus multimédia à grande échelle pour des clients hétérogènes. Cependant, le déploiement de services vidéo temps réel sur les réseaux P2P a suscité un grand nombre de défis dû à l'hétérogénéité des terminaux et des réseaux d'accès, aux caractéristiques dynamiques des pairs, et aux autres problèmes hérités des protocoles TCP/IP, à savoir les pertes de paquets, les délais de transfert et la variation de la bande passante de bout-en-bout. Dans ce contexte, l'objectif de cette thèse est d'analyser les différents problèmes et de proposer un mécanisme de transport vidéo temps réel avec le provisionnement de la qualité de Service (QoS). Ainsi, nous proposons trois contributions majeures. Premièrement, il s'agit d'un mécanisme de streaming vidéo adaptatif permettant de sélectionner les meilleurs pair émetteurs. Ce mécanisme permet de structurer les pairs dans des réseaux overlay hybrides avec une prise en charge des caractéristiques sémantiques du contenu et des caractéristiques physiques du lien de transport. Nous présentons ensuite un mécanisme d'ordonnancement de paquets vidéo combiné à une commutation de pairs et/ou de flux pour assurer un transport lisse. Finalement, une architecture de collaboration entre les applications P2P et les fournisseurs de services / réseaux est proposée pour supporter un contrôle d'admission de flux.

Syfte: Syftet med undersökningen är att beskriva och analysera finansieringsformen P2P-utlåning, dess bildande och utveckling samt utvärdera hur den har fungerat för små- och nyföretagare. Problemformulering: Studien undersöker hur finansieringsformen person-till-person-utlåning via Internet uppstod. Vidare redogörs för utvecklingen på P2P-plattformen Lending Club sedan låneförmedlingens start 2007 fram till 2011. Slutligen undersöks vad som kännetecknar låntagarna på Lending Club som ansöker om lån till små och nya företag samt hur de presterat gällande deras återbetalningsförmåga. Teoretiskt ramverk: Studiens teoretiska ramverk utgörs av framförallt vetenskapliga artiklar vilka behandlar det finansiella gapet, informations-asymmetrier och kreditbedömning. Vidare återges en bakgrunds-teckning över studier gjorda kring social utlåning och P2P-utlåning. Slutsatser: Studien kommer fram till att P2P-utlåning via Internet har sitt ursprung i social utlåning och möjliggjorts genom bland annat teknologisk utveckling av kreditvärderings-verktyg. Lending Clubs utveckling har gått från mer av ett socialt nätverk till att idag likna mer en finansiell intermediär med kreditvärdiga låntagare och institutionella investerare. Medlemmarna på Lending Club som lånar till små och nya företag kännetecknas av högre kreditvärdighet i jämförelse med övriga låntagare samtidigt som de presterar sämre i termer av återbetalningsförmåga. / Purpose: The purpose of this study is to describe and analyze P2P lending, its formation and development and evaluate how it has worked for small businesses and start-ups. Problem statement: The study examines how person-to-person lending through the Internet has emerged. Furthermore, the study examines the development of the P2P platform Lending Club since its inception in 2007 until 2011. Finally, the study examines the characteristics of the borrowers at Lending Club who are applying for loans to small businesses and start-ups, as well as how they perform in terms of their ability to repay their loans.        Theoretical framework: The theoretical framework consists mainly of scientific articles regarding the financial gap, information asymmetries and credit rating. Furthermore, studies on social lending and P2P-lending are presented in a background chapter. Conclusions: The study concludes that P2P lending through the Internet has its origins in social lending and made ​​possible by foremost technological development of rating tools. The development of Lending Club has shifted from more of a social network to more of a financial intermediary with creditworthy borrowers and institutional investors. Members on Lending Club that borrow to small businesses and start-ups are characterized by having a higher credit rating compared to other borrowers, while they perform less well in terms of ability to repay.

Bandwidth and resource constraints at the server side is a limitation for deployment of streaming media applications. Resource constraints at the server side often leads to saturation of resources during sudden increase in requests. End System Multicast (ESM) is used to overcome the problem of resource saturation. Resources such as storage, bandwidth available at the end systems are utilized to deliver streaming media. In ESM, the end-systems (also known as peers) form a network which is commonly known as Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network. These peers that receive the stream in turn act as routable components and forward the stream to other requests. These peers do not possess server like characteristics. The peers differ from the server in the following ways: (a) they join and exit the system at will (b) unlike servers, they are not reliable source of media. This induces instability in the network. Therefore, streaming media solution over such unstable peer network is a challenging task. Two kinds of media streaming is supported by ESM, namely, live streaming media and on-demand streaming media. ESM is well studied to support live streaming media. In this thesis we explore the effectiveness of using ESM to support on-demand streaming media over P2P network. There are two major issues to support on-demand streaming video.They are: (a)unlike live streaming, every request should be served from the beginning of the stream and (b) instability in the network due to peer characteristics (particularly transience of peers). In our work, late arriving peers can join the existing stream if the initial segments can be served to these peers. In this scheme, a single stream is used to serve multiple requests and therefore the throughput increases. We propose patching mechanism in which the initial segments of media are temporarily cached in the peers as patches. The peers as they join, contribute storage and this storage space is used to cache the initial segments. The patching mechanism is controlled by Expanding Window Control Protocol (EWCP). EWCP defines a “virtual window” that logically represents the aggregated cache contributed by the peers. The window expands as the peer contribute more resources. Larger the window size more is the number of clients that can be served by a single stream. GAP is formed when contiguous segments of media is lost. GAP limits the expansion of the virtual window. We explore the conditions that lead to the formation of GAP. GAP is formed due to the transience and non-cooperation of peers. Transience of peers coupled with real time nature of the application requires fast failure recovery algorithms and methods to overcome loss of media segments. We propose an efficient peer management protocol that provides constant failure recovery time. We explore several redundancy techniques to overcome the problem of loss of video segments during transience of peers. Peer characteristics (duration, resource contribution etc.) have significant impact on performance.The design of peer management protocol must include peer characteristics to increase its effectiveness. In this thesis we present detailed analysis of the relationship between the peer characteristics and performance. Our results indicate that peer characteristics and realtime nature of the application control the performance of the system. Based on our study, we propose algorithms that considers these parameters and increase the performance of the system. Finally, we bring all the pieces of our work together into a comprehensive system architecture for streaming media over P2P networks. We have implemented a prototype Black-Board System (BBS), a distance program utility that reflects the main concepts of our work. We show that algorithms that exploit peer characteristics performs well in P2P networks.

<p>Innehåll: Peer-to-peer är idag en teknik som i de flesta fall förknippas med fildelning.</p><p>I detta arbete har vi försökt klargöra vilka andra möjligheter tekniken erbjuder för företag och i dessa möjligheter försökt hitta fördelar och nackdelar med tekniken. Klient-server är en vanlig teknik idag bland företag och i arbetet undersöks om peer-to-peer kan vara en möjlig konkurrent till denna teknik.</p><p>Syftet med rapporten är att se om det finns intresse bland företagen att använda sig av de möjligheter som peer-to-peer tekniken erbjuder samt att undersöka hur den skulle kunna användas.</p> / <p>Contents: Peer-to-peer is a technique that is most often associated with file sharing. In this thesis we try to examine what other possibilities the technique has to offer to companies, and in these possibilities, determine pros and cons. Client-server is a common technique today, especially amongst companies, and in this thesis we study if peer-to-peer can be a possible competitor to this technique. The purpose with the study is to see if companies are interested in using the possibilities offered in the peer-to-peer technique and how these possibilities could be used in a company.</p>

Ανέκαθεν, η ανάγκη του ανθρώπου για πληροφορία ήτανε μια από αυτές που φρόντιζε να ικανοποιήσει όσο το δυνατόν πληρέστερα. Η πληροφορία είναι σε όλες τις περιπτώσεις ένα πολύτιμο εργαλείο στην λήψη αποφάσεων και οι άνθρωποι γρήγορα αντιλήφθηκαν την σημασία της, ειδικότερα μάλιστα στην σύγχρονη εποχή στην οποία μέσω της επιστήμης της Πληροφορικής δόθηκε η δυνατότητα σε μεγάλο μέρος του κοινού να έχει πρόσβαση σε τεράστιο όγκο δεδομένων, τα οποία μέσω της σωστής επεξεργασίας μετατρέπονται σε πληροφορία. Αυτό που πλέον αποτελεί πρόκληση, η οποία μας καλεί σαν επιστήμονες της Πληροφορικής να αντιμετωπίσουμε, είναι η εύρεση και στην συνέχεια η εφαρμογή καινούργιων μεθόδων γρήγορης και ανέξοδης συλλογής, αποδοτικής αποθήκευσης και εποικοδομητικής ανάλυσης δεδομένων, έτσι ώστε να γίνουν πληροφορία ποιοτική, πλούσια και με σημαντική χρηστική αξία. Στις μέρες μας, η ανάπτυξη του κλάδου τόσο των κατανεμημένων συστημάτων όσο και του διαδικτύου, μας έχουνε δώσει την δυνατότητα να χρησιμοποιούνται χαμηλοί σε απαιτήσεις υπολογιστικοί πόροι για να επεξεργάζονται παράλληλα μεγάλο όγκο δεδομένων. Ο κλάδος της Πληροφορικής που ασχολείται εκτενώς με αυτά τα συστήματα είναι τα ομότιμα συστήματα ή αλλιώς p2p συστήματα και ο κατανεμημένος υπολογισμός. Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία έχει ως στόχο να βρίσκει σε κατανεμημένο περιβάλλον σημεία στις δύο διαστάσεις. Ορίζεται, δηλαδή, ένας χώρος από κ – διαστάσεις που είναι το πλέγμα (grid), στον οποίο ο χρήστης προσπαθεί να εντοπίσει σημεία που τον ενδιαφέρουν δημιουργώντας έτσι ερωτήματα εύρους. Το σύστημα θα ψάχνει να βρει το αποτέλεσμα στο ερώτημα αυτό για να καταλήξει σε ποιο από τα άλλα ορθογώνια τμήματα του πλέγματος εμπλέκεται και στην συνέχεια αυτά (τα τμήματα) θα επιστρέφονται. Πιο συγκεκριμένα, το πλέγμα μας χωρίζεται σε τετράγωνες περιοχές και κάθε κόμβος του κατανεμημένου δικτύου αναλαμβάνει να φιλοξενήσει τα σημεία της κάθε τετράγωνης περιοχής. Όλοι αυτοί οι κόμβοι οργανώνονται σε ένα hadoop cluster και τα δεδομένα εισάγονται στην κατανεμημένη βάση δεδομένων HBase που βασίζεται στην αρχιτεκτονική του BigTable της Google File System. Ο τρόπος που οργανώνονται τα δεδομένα στην HBase είναι κατανεμημένος και γίνεται χρήση των B+ -δέντρων. Η χρησιμότητα των B+ -δέντρων σε συνδυασμό με το κατανεμημένο πλαίσιο εργασίας του Hadoop, έγκειται στο γεγονός ότι με την χρήση των απαραίτητων εργαλείων τόσο της HBase όσο και του Hadoop FS, μπορούμε να γνωρίζουμε σε ποιόν κόμβο του hadoop cluster είναι αποθηκευμένοι οι ζητούμενοι κόμβοι του B+ -δέντρου και έτσι να επιτυγχάνεται η γρήγορη ανάκτηση των αποτελεσμάτων σε ένα ερώτημα εύρους. Η διάρθρωση της εργασίας έχει ως εξής: Στο πρώτο κεφάλαιο γίνεται μια εισαγωγή στις έννοιες του κατανεμημένου υπολογισμού πάνω σε κατανεμημένα περιβάλλοντα. Στο δεύτερο γίνεται μια αναφορά στα ομότιμα δίκτυα (p2p) και πιο συγκεκριμένα αναλύεται το δίκτυο επικάλυψης του BATON που έχει δενδρική δομή όμοια με αυτή του Β+ -δέντρου. Στο τρίτο κεφάλαιο αναφέρεται μια υλοποίηση δεικτοδότησης και απάντησης σε ερωτήματα εύρους στο Νέφος Υπολογιστών με χρήση βασικών δομών δεδομένων B+ -δέντρου. Επίσης, η ART Autonomous Range Tree δομή παρουσιάζεται η οποία μπορεί να υποστηρίξει ερωτήματα εύρους σε τόσο ευρείας κλίμακας σε μη κεντρικοποιημένα περιβάλλοντα και μπορεί να κλιμακώνεται σε σχέση με τον αριθμό των κόμβων, καθώς και με βάση τα στοιχεία που είναι αποθηκευμένα. Η ART δομή ξεπερνά τις πιο δημοφιλείς μη κεντρικοποιημένες δομές, συμπεριλαμβανομένου του Chord (και μερικοί από τους διαδόχους του), του ΒΑΤΟΝ (και τον διάδοχό του) και των Skip-Graphs. Στο τέταρτο και πέμπτο κεφάλαιο, αντίστοιχα, γίνεται μια αναφορά στα βασικότερα σημεία της αρχιτεκτονικής και της λειτουργίας του Hadoop Framework και της HBase. Στο έκτο κεφάλαιο, βρίσκεται η περιγραφή της υλοποίησης της παρούσης διπλωματικής εργασίας μαζί με τους αλγορίθμους και τον τρόπο λειτουργίας τους. Στο επόμενο γίνεται η αξιολόγηση των πειραματικών αποτελεσμάτων της παρούσης διπλωματικής εργασίας καθώς, και το τι συμπεράσματα προκύπτουν μέσα από την αξιολόγηση. Τέλος, στο τελευταίο και όγδοο κεφάλαιο γίνεται η αποτίμηση της διπλωματικής εργασίας, καθώς αναφέρονται τα βασικά της μέρη, όπως επίσης και πιθανές προεκτάσεις που θα βελτίωναν την απόδοση του συστήματος. / Traditionally, the human need for information was one of those seeking to satisfy as much as possible. Information is in every way a valuable tool in decision making and people quickly realized its importance, especially in modern times, when the Information Technology gave the public access to the vast volume of data, which can be further processed into information. What seems to be now a challenge that IT specialists have to face is finding and implementing new methods of fast and inexpensive data collection, efficient storing of data and constructive data analysis, in order to turn them into quality, rich and useful information. Nowadays, the devel-opment of both the field of distributed systems and the Internet gave us the possibility of using computational resources with low requirements for simultaneous processing of large amounts of data. The IT field that deals extensively with these systems are peer-to-peer systems (p2p) and distributed computing. The present dissertation aims at finding points in a distributed environment in the two-dimensional space. A space of k – dimensions is defined, i.e. the grid, in which the user tries to identify points of interest creating range queries. The system will search to find the result in this question to come up with the rectangular section of the grid that is involved and then these sections will be returned. More specifically, the grid is divided into square areas, and each node of the distributed network will accommodate points of each square area. All these nodes are organized into a hadoop cluster and the data is imported into the HBase distributed database based on BigTable architecture of the Google File System. In HBase data is organized in a distributed way and B+ -trees are used. The utility of B+ -trees in conjunction with the distributed framework of Hadoop lies on the fact that using the necessary tools of both HBase and Hadoop FS we can know in which hadoop cluster node the requested B+ -tree nodes are stored and thus achieve fast results retrieval in a range query. The structure of the project is as follows: The first chapter is an introduction to the concepts of distributed computing over distributed environments. The second is a reference to peer-to-peer networks (p2p) and more specifically the BATON overlay network, which has a tree structure similar to that of the B+ -tree, is analyzed. The third chapter deals with an indexation and answering implementation on range queries in the Computer Cloud using B+ -tree basic data structures. Also, ART Autonomous Range Tree structure is presented which can support range queries in such large-scale decentralized environments and can scale in terms of the number of nodes as well as in terms of the data items stored. ART outperforms the most popular decentralized structures, including Chord (and some of its successors), BATON (and its successor) and Skip-Graphs. In the fourth and fifth chapter respectively a reference is made to the main points of Hadoop Framework and HBase architecture and operation. The sixth chapter is the description of the implementation of this dissertation together with the algorithms and how they operate. The next chapter is the evaluation of the experimental results of this dissertation and of the conclusions that derive from the evaluation. Finally, the eighth and last chapter is an overview of the dissertation, mentioning its basic parts, as well as possible extensions that would improve the system performance.

Peer to peer networks are becoming increasingly popular among Internet users as the downloading peers share the storage and upload bandwidth load of the system. This makes it possible for a large number of users to share a data file available at a server without the server upload bandwidth becoming a bottleneck. The P2P technology is being widely used not only for file sharing but also for video on demand, live streaming and IPTV. The delay deadlines are more stringent in live streaming and IPTV than those in file sharing as the traffic is real time. The performance perceived by a user depends upon whether the video stream is being downloaded at the streaming rate. Coolstreaming is the first large scale P2P IPTV system. We model the multi-channel Coolstreaming system via an open queueing network. The peer dynamics at a channel is modelled by a closed queueing network working at a faster rate. We compute the expected number of substreams in the overlay of New Coolstreaming which are not being received at the proper rate. The computation of the Markov chain with a very large state space is handled using the two time scale decomposition. Further we characterize the end to end delay encountered by a video stream originating from the server and received at a user of New Coolstreaming. Three factors contribute towards the delay. The first factor is the mean path length in terms of overlay hops of the partnership graph. The second factor is the mean number of routers between any two overlay peers in the network layer and the third factor is the queueing delay at a router in the Internet. The mean shortest path length in terms of overlay peers in the New Coolstreaming graph is shown to be O(logn)where nis the number of peers in the overlay. This is done by modelling the overlay by a random graph. The mean shortest path in terms of routers in the Internet’s router level topology is seen to be at most O(logNI)where NIis the number of routers in the Internet. We also discuss a method by which we can get the mean delay at a router in the Internet. Thus, the mean end to end delay in New Coolstreaming is shown to be upper bounded by O(lognlogNIE[W])where E[W]is the mean delay at a router in the Internet.

Innehåll: Peer-to-peer är idag en teknik som i de flesta fall förknippas med fildelning. I detta arbete har vi försökt klargöra vilka andra möjligheter tekniken erbjuder för företag och i dessa möjligheter försökt hitta fördelar och nackdelar med tekniken. Klient-server är en vanlig teknik idag bland företag och i arbetet undersöks om peer-to-peer kan vara en möjlig konkurrent till denna teknik. Syftet med rapporten är att se om det finns intresse bland företagen att använda sig av de möjligheter som peer-to-peer tekniken erbjuder samt att undersöka hur den skulle kunna användas. / Contents: Peer-to-peer is a technique that is most often associated with file sharing. In this thesis we try to examine what other possibilities the technique has to offer to companies, and in these possibilities, determine pros and cons. Client-server is a common technique today, especially amongst companies, and in this thesis we study if peer-to-peer can be a possible competitor to this technique. The purpose with the study is to see if companies are interested in using the possibilities offered in the peer-to-peer technique and how these possibilities could be used in a company.