Reference:

Supriya Krishnamurthy, Sameh El-Ansary, Erik Aurell, and Seif Haridi. A statistical theory of chord under churn. In 4th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS'05), volume 3640, pages 93–103, Ithaca, N.Y., USA, February 2005.

Suggested BibTeX entry:

@inproceedings{IPTPS,
    address = {Ithaca, N.Y., USA},
    author = {Supriya Krishnamurthy and Sameh El-Ansary and Erik Aurell and Seif Haridi},
    booktitle = {4th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS'05)},
    journal = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
    month = {February},
    pages = {93-103},
    title = {A statistical theory of Chord under Churn},
    volume = {3640},
    year = {2005},
}

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