Comparing BitTorrent clients in the wild: The case of download speed

Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems, IPTPS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Iliofotou, Marios ^a   Siganos, Georgos ^b   Yang, Xiaoyuan ^b   Rodriguez, Pablo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TELEFONICA RESEARCH   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE; SPEED;

BIT TORRENTS; BITTORRENT; DATA SET; LARGE FILES; P2P PROTOCOLS; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; REAL-WORLD; RESEARCH EFFORTS;

PEER TO PEER NETWORKS;

EID: 85126507378     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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