
120 Peer-to-Peer Computing
TABLE 5 .6: Symbols.
Symbol Definition
r rate of the media content
t
duration o f the media content
n
number of stripes
P
RX
s
receive power of the server interface
R
s
data rate of the server interface (downlink)
P
RX
p
receive power of the peer interface
R
p
data rate of the peer interface (sy mmetric)
E
RX
s
(i)
energy cost of receiving i s tripes through the server inter-
face (i ≤ n)
E
RX
p
(i)
energy cost of receiving i stripes through the peer interface
(i ≤ n)
E
T X
p
(i)
energy cost of transmitting i strip e s through the peer in-
terface (i ≤ n)
α
x
client x’s typ e
α
1
(i)
threshold value for a client to receive i stripes fro m the
server
α
M
(i)
threshold ...