[Csci551-talk] Experimental Writeup Confusion

[Xi Wang]

It is specified that all nodes start at the same time. The purpose to 
test the system performance under heavy load.

For example if a new download tasks only starts when all previous tasks 
has completed the a peer-to-peer system would perform no better than a 
central server.

Narendra Acharya wrote:

> I am a bit confused about Xi’s answer. According to him we have to take 
> the time from start to the end of the completion of simulation. But this 
> works only if we consider that all the peers start at the same time. If 
> we consider different start time for different peers then we would not 
> be able to judge the performance of different algorithms. Therefore 
> isn’t it better if we consider the individual file download times for 
> each peer and then take required statistics? Because when evaluating the 
> algorithms we are not bothered about the time it take for a simulation 
> to complete, but rather are concerned about getting better file download 
> times.
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