Incentives in BitTorrent induce free riding

Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2005 Workshops: Conference on Computer Communications

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 116-121

  Jun, Seung ^a   Ahamad, Mustaque ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

BitTorrent; Data dissemination; Incentive mechanisms; Prisoner's dilemma; Strategy

Indexed keywords

BITTORRENT; INCENTIVE MECHANISMS; PRISONER'S DILEMMA; STRATEGY;

DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 29244453215     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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