A BitTorrent proxy for Green Internet file sharing: Design and experimental evaluation

Computer Communications

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 794-802

  Anastasi, Giuseppe ^a   Giannetti, Ilaria ^a   Passarella, Andrea ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

BitTorrent; Energy efficiency; Green Internet; P2P file sharing

Indexed keywords

BITTORRENT; DATA CENTERS; DOWNLOAD TIME; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENERGY EFFICIENT; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; FILE SHARING; INTERNET APPLICATION; NOVEL ARCHITECTURE; P2P FILE SHARING; PEER-TO-PEER FILE SHARING;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; INTERNET; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; MICROCOMPUTERS; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 76549099295     PISSN: 01403664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2009.11.016     Document Type: Article

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