Title :
EZEL: a Visual Tool for Performance Assessment of Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing Network
Author :
Voinea, Lucian ; Telea, Alex ; Van Wijk, Jarke J.
Author_Institution :
Technische Univ. Eindhoven
Abstract :
In this paper we present EZEL, a visual tool we developed for the performance assessment of peer-to-peer file-sharing networks. We start by identifying the relevant data transferred in this kind of networks and the main performance assessment questions. Then we describe the visualization of data from two different points of view. First we take servers as focal points and we introduce a new technique, faded cushioning, which allows visualizing the same data from different perspectives. Secondly, we present the viewpoint of files, and we expose the correlations with the server stance via a special scatter plot. Finally, we discuss how our tool, based on the described techniques, is effective in the performance assessment of peer-to-peer file-sharing networks
Keywords :
computer displays; data visualisation; distributed databases; file servers; peer-to-peer computing; EZEL visual tool; data visualization; distributed file systems; faded cushioning; peer-to-peer file-sharing networks; Chromium; Computer displays; Computer graphics; Computer interfaces; Data visualization; Distributed processing; File servers; Network servers; Peer to peer computing; Scattering; P2P file-sharing networks visualization; distributed file systems visualization; process visualization; small displays;
Conference_Titel :
Information Visualization, 2004. INFOVIS 2004. IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Austin, TX
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8779-3
DOI :
10.1109/INFVIS.2004.25
