Master's Thesis from the year 2007 in the subject Computer Science - General, grade: 1,3, Technical University of Darmstadt, language: English, abstract: In this thesis existing mathematical models for P2P systems are presented and evaluated. Thereby the search efficiency in structured and unstructured P2P overlays, the features and restrictions in P2P streaming applications, the service capacity in P2P file sharing systems, content download and replication...