An expected acquisition rate based contents sharing scheme in hybrid P2P networks and cloud storages

This paper makes a proposal of efficient contents sharing scheme working under the situation where the storages of both hybrid Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks and a cloud system are available. The scheme keeps the expected acquisition rate for contents searching at the level of freely-prearranged value, and is able to provide ideal environments according to the different types of contents sharing service requirements. The effectiveness of the scheme is verified by computer simulations.