How efficient is BitTorrent?

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6071, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Wu, Gang ^a   Chiueh, Tzi Cker ^a  

^a USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BITTORRENT; CENTRALLY SCHEDULED FILE DISTRIBUTION (CSFD); FILE DISTRIBUTION PROTOCOLS; MEDIA STREAMING;

ALGORITHMS; BIT ERROR RATE; CONTROL SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERNET; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 33645674570     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.651034     Document Type: Conference Paper

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