Modeling and performance analysis of BitTorrent-like peer-to-peer networks
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Some observations on bitTorrent performance
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Rarest first and choke algorithms are enough
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One hop reputations for peer to peer file sharing workloads
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Modeling chunk availability in P2P swarming systems
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Strategic reasoning about bundling in swarming systems
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Do incentives build robustness in bit torrent
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A performance study of BitTorrent-like peer-to-peer systems
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Modeling chunk availability in P2P swarming systems
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Is content publishing in BitTorrent altruistic or profit-driven?
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Strengthening forensic investigations of child pornography on P2P networks
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How prevalent is content bundling in BitTorrent
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How prevalent is content bundling in BitTorrent
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IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Implications of peer selection strategies by publishers on the performance of P2P swarming systems
ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review
How impatience affects the performance and scalability of P2P video-on-demand systems
ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review
Using torrent inflation to efficiently serve the long tail in peer-assisted content delivery systems
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Heterogeneous download times in a homogeneous BitTorrent swarm
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IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Analysis of distribution time of multiple files in a P2P network
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QEST'13 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems
Unveiling the incentives for content publishing in popular BitTorrent portals
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
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BitTorrent, the immensely popular file swarming system, suffers a fundamental problem: unavailability. Although swarming scales well to tolerate flash crowds for popular content, it is less useful for unpopular or rare files as peers arriving after the initial rush find the content unavailable. Our primary contribution is a model to quantify content availability in swarming systems. We use the model to analyze the availability and the performance implications of bundling, a strategy commonly adopted by many BitTorrent publishers today. We find that even a limited amount of bundling exponentially reduces content unavailability. Furthermore, for swarms with highly unavailable publishers, the availability gain of bundling can result in a net improvement in download time, i.e., peers obtain more content in less time. We empirically confirm the model's conclusions through experiments on PlanetLab using the mainline BitTorrent client.