EMule Simulator: A Practical Way to Study the eMule System

Author

Sheng, Lijie ; Song, Jianfeng ; Dong, Xuewen ; Zhou, Liwei

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Xidian Univ., Xi´´an, China

fYear

2010

fDate

11-16 April 2010

Firstpage

83

Lastpage

88

Abstract

Simulation is an effective way to study P2P systems. But for the popular file sharing software eMule, there is no eMule simulator to date. In this paper, we release the first eMule simulator, which simulates the internal mechanisms of the eMule software, such as requesting source list from server, publishing shared file list to server, connecting to other clients and requesting for uploading, credit and queue system, part selection algorithm, and data transfer between peers. Design and implementation of the simulator are presented in detail. Performance and memory efficiency of the simulator are discussed. Experiment results demonstrate that the simulator can model the internal behavior of the eMule network properly.

Keywords

peer-to-peer computing; queueing theory; EMule simulator; P2P systems; data transfer; eMule simulator; eMule system; file sharing software; internal mechanisms; memory efficiency; performance efficiency; queue system; Analytical models; Computational modeling; Computer science; Computer simulation; Discrete event simulation; File servers; Joining processes; Peer to peer computing; Protocols; Publishing; P2P; eMule; simulator;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Networks (ICN), 2010 Ninth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Menuires

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6083-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICN.2010.22

Filename

5473956