Unraveling the BitTorrent ecosystem

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1164-1177

  Zhang, Chao ^a   Dhungel, Prithula ^a   Wu, Di ^b   Ross, Keith W ^a  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

BitTorrent Ecosystem; content distribution; measurement.; peer to peer

Indexed keywords

BITTORRENT; BITTORRENT ECOSYSTEM; CONTENT DISTRIBUTION; DATA SETS; INTERNET APPLICATION; MEASUREMENT DATA; P2P APPLICATIONS; PEER TO PEER; RANDOM SAMPLE; USER BEHAVIORS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERNET; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

EID: 79957594613     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2010.123     Document Type: Article

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