Influences on cooperation in BitTorrent communities

Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2005 3rd Workshop on the Economics of Peer-to-Peer Systems, P2PECON 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 111-115

  Andrade, Nazareno ^a   Mowbray, Miranda ^b   Lima, Aliandro ^a   Wagner, Gustavo ^a   Ripeanu, Matei ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINA GRANDE   (Brazil)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

BitTorrent; cooperation; P2P

Indexed keywords

BIT TORRENTS; CO-OPERATIVE BEHAVIORS; COOPERATION; FILE SHARING; GNUTELLA; P2P; P2P PROTOCOLS; USAGE DATA;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84885692515     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1080192.1080198     Document Type: Conference Paper

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