Evaluating forward error correction performance in BitTorrent protocol

Proceedings - Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 968-975

  Saad, Radwane ^a,b   Serhrouchni, Ahmed ^a,b   Begliche, Youcef ^b   Chen, Ken ^a,b  

^a TELECOM PARISTECH   (France)

^b Université de Paris 13 ^*

Author keywords

BitTorrent; FEC; P2P; Performance; Statistical Test

Indexed keywords

BITTORRENT; COMPLETION TIME; DATA ACCESS; FEC; FILE SHARING; NETWORK CONFIGURATION; P2P; PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; RELIABLE DATA TRANSMISSION; SIMULATION FRAMEWORK;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE; FORWARD ERROR CORRECTION; INTERNET; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; STATISTICAL TESTS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 79955042528     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/LCN.2010.5735842     Document Type: Conference Paper

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