Bandwidth allocation in peer-to-peer file sharing networks

Computer Communications

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 257-265

  Creus Mir, Albert ^a   Casadesus Masanell, Ramon ^b   Hervas Drane, Andres ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Congestion; Network formation; Peer to peer; Resource allocation

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

FILE SHARING NETWORKS; NETWORK FORMATION; PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 38149107611     PISSN: 01403664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2007.08.001     Document Type: Article

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