A number of solutions have been proposed to address the free-riding problem in peer-to-peer file sharing systems. The solutions are either imperfect–they allow some users to ch...
During recent years, peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing systems have evolved in many ways to accommodate growing numbers of participating peers. In particular, new features have cha...
In this paper, we present a simulation-based study of BitTorrent. Our results confirm that BitTorrent performs nearoptimally in terms of uplink bandwidth utilization and download...
Ashwin R. Bharambe, Cormac Herley, Venkata N. Padm...