6 Definitions

  1. Q: The cluster size. The number of peers in the cluster.
  2. C: The chunk rate. The number of chunks per second.

 6.1 Splitter delivery period
 6.2 Steady-state performance
 Throughput
 Network degree
 Bit rates
 Protocol overhead
 Network diameter
 Network delay
 Block rate
 Buffering delay
 Client delay
 Start-up delay
 6.3 Chunk lost-rate produced by churn and unwarned-churn
 6.4 Flash crowd dealing (maybe included in the previous section?)
 6.5 Maximun free-riding ratio
 6.6 DoS impact?
 6.7 Scalability
 6.8 Are peers synchronized?