Stability and efficiency of unstructured file sharing networks

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1284-1294

  Zhang, Honggang ^a,b   Neglia, Giovanni ^a,c,d   Towsley, Don ^a,e   Lo Presti, Giuseppe ^f  

^a IEEE

^b SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INRIA   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^e University of Massachusetts Amherst   (United States)

^f CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

BitTorrent; Dynamic stability; Efficiency loss; Game theory; Nash equilibrium; Pairwise equilibrium network; Pairwise stability; Peer to peer; Tit for tat; Unstructured file sharing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

BITTORRENT; DYNAMIC STABILITY; EFFICIENCY LOSS; GAME THEORY; NASH EQUILIBRIUM; PAIRWISE EQUILIBRIUM NETWORK; PAIRWISE STABILITY; PEER-TO-PEER; TIT-FOR-TAT; UNSTRUCTURED FILE SHARING;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 50649107491     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2008.080925     Document Type: Conference Paper

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