. ON FLASH CROWD PERFORMANCE OF PEER- ASSISTED FILE DISTRIBUTION CRISTINA C ˘ ARBUNARU B. Eng., UNIVERSITY “POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST, ROMANIA A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT. Peer- to -peer File Distribution, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2013 (accepted). 2. Cristina Carbunaru, Yong Meng Teo, Performance of Peer- a s sisted File Dis- tribution,. commercial applications, it is increasingly important to understand the performance of file distribution. File distribution systems often have to cope with extreme conditions, called flash crowds, when