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Some observations on bitTorrent performance

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Ashwin R. Bharambe,

Cormac Herley, and

Venkata N. PadmanabhanAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, Volume 33, Issue 1

Pages 398 - 399

https://doi.org/10.1145/1071690.1064273

Published: 06 June 2005 Publication History

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In this paper, we present a simulation-based study of BitTorrent. Our results confirm that BitTorrent performs near-optimally in terms of uplink bandwidth utilization and download time, except under certain extreme conditions. On fairness, however, our work shows that low bandwidth peers systematically download more than they upload to the network when high bandwidth peers are present. We find that the rate-based tit-for-tat policy is not effective in preventing unfairness. We show how simple changes to the tracker and a stricter, block-based tit-for-tat policy, greatly improves fairness, while maintaining high utilization.

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ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review Volume 33, Issue 1

Performance evaluation review

June 2005

417 pages

ISSN:0163-5999

DOI:10.1145/1071690

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SIGMETRICS '05: Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
June 2005
428 pages
ISBN:1595930221
DOI:10.1145/1064212
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University of Saskatchewan, Canada
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University of Calgary, Canada
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Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

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