III. PERFORMANCE OF BITTORRENT
The popularity of BitTorrent has spurred a large number
of studies of its performance. Some measure its behavior on
real torrents; others use the simulation to observe its performance
while others use mathematical analysis-based models
to evaluate its performance. In this section, we first organize
the papers based on the performance evaluation method used.
The main purpose of organizing this section according to the
performance evaluation methods used is to group together
the papers using similar approaches to evaluation. We do
notice that each evaluation technique lends itself to examining
certain aspects of BitTorrent performance better than the other
techniques. We highlight the advantages and shortcomings of
each approach in the respective section. In the final subsection
we concentrate more on reviewing the techniques from the
perspective of the issues addressed and the different aspects
of performance studied.