IPTPS '01 Revised Papers from the First International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems
ICNP '97 Proceedings of the 1997 International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP '97)
Modeling and performance analysis of BitTorrent-like peer-to-peer networks
Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Faithfulness in internet algorithms
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Practice and theory of incentives in networked systems
MultiQ: automated detection of multiple bottleneck capacities along a path
Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
SIGMETRICS '05 Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Incentives in BitTorrent induce free riding
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Economics of peer-to-peer systems
Rarest first and choke algorithms are enough
Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
Measurements, analysis, and modeling of BitTorrent-like systems
IMC '05 Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet Measurement
iPlane: an information plane for distributed services
OSDI '06 Proceedings of the 7th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation - Volume 7
The Delicate Tradeoffs in BitTorrent-like File Sharing Protocol Design
ICNP '06 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols
Clustering and sharing incentives in BitTorrent systems
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Partial content distribution on high performance networks
Proceedings of the 16th international symposium on High performance distributed computing
Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
Making p2p accountable without losing privacy
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM workshop on Privacy in electronic society
An alliance based peering scheme for peer-to-peer live media streaming
Proceedings of the 2007 workshop on Peer-to-peer streaming and IP-TV
High-bandwidth data dissemination for large-scale distributed systems
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Managing inter-domain traffic in the presence of bittorrent file-sharing
SIGMETRICS '08 Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Optimizing the BitTorrent performance using an adaptive peer selection strategy
Future Generation Computer Systems
One hop reputations for peer to peer file sharing workloads
NSDI'08 Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
Towards a model of computer systems research
WOWCS'08 Proceedings of the conference on Organizing Workshops, Conferences, and Symposia for Computer Systems
Bittorrent is an auction: analyzing and improving bittorrent's incentives
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2008 conference on Data communication
Donnybrook: enabling large-scale, high-speed, peer-to-peer games
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2008 conference on Data communication
Cooperation under Scarcity: The Sharer's Dilemma
AIMS '08 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security: Resilient Networks and Services
Enforcing behaviour with anonymity
Proceedings of the workshop on Applications of private and anonymous communications
Reputation and audits for self-organizing storage
Proceedings of the workshop on Security in Opportunistic and SOCial networks
P2P Networking and Applications
P2P Networking and Applications
A Comparison of Bilateral and Multilateral Exchanges for Peer-Assisted Content Distribution
Network Control and Optimization
Conference reviewing considered harmful
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
Measuring web feature impacts in BitTorrent-like systems
Proceedings of the 5th International ICST Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness
An Activeness-Based Seed Choking Algorithm for Enhancing BitTorrent's Robustness
GPC '09 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Advances in Grid and Pervasive Computing
Peer-assisted content distribution with prices
CoNEXT '08 Proceedings of the 2008 ACM CoNEXT Conference
Uplink allocation beyond choke/unchoke: or how to divide and conquer best
CoNEXT '08 Proceedings of the 2008 ACM CoNEXT Conference
The design trade-offs of BitTorrent-like file sharing protocols
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
TrInc: small trusted hardware for large distributed systems
NSDI'09 Proceedings of the 6th USENIX symposium on Networked systems design and implementation
Antfarm: efficient content distribution with managed swarms
NSDI'09 Proceedings of the 6th USENIX symposium on Networked systems design and implementation
Symbiotic relationships in internet routing overlays
NSDI'09 Proceedings of the 6th USENIX symposium on Networked systems design and implementation
Collaboration in BitTorrent Systems
NETWORKING '09 Proceedings of the 8th International IFIP-TC 6 Networking Conference
Measuring web feature impacts in Peer-to-Peer file sharing systems
Computer Communications
Classifying peer-to-peer network coding schemes
Proceedings of the twenty-first annual symposium on Parallelism in algorithms and architectures
A survey of attack and defense techniques for reputation systems
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Measurement and mitigation of BitTorrent leecher attacks
Computer Communications
Adding Trust to P2P Distribution of Paid Content
ISC '09 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Security
Content availability and bundling in swarming systems
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Emerging networking experiments and technologies
FairTorrent: bringing fairness to peer-to-peer systems
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Emerging networking experiments and technologies
Multi-torrent: a performance study and applications
International Journal of Advanced Media and Communication
Impact of altruism on opportunistic communications
ICUFN'09 Proceedings of the first international conference on Ubiquitous and future networks
GameNets'09 Proceedings of the First ICST international conference on Game Theory for Networks
Enabling Grassroots Distributed Computing with CompTorrent
Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing
A novel optimistic unchoking algorithm for bittorrent
CCNC'09 Proceedings of the 6th IEEE Conference on Consumer Communications and Networking Conference
Selfishness, altruism and message spreading in mobile social networks
INFOCOM'09 Proceedings of the 28th IEEE international conference on Computer Communications Workshops
Robust and efficient incentives for cooperative content distribution
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Exploiting social interactions in mobile systems
UbiComp '07 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Ubiquitous computing
Evolution of resource reciprocation strategies in P2P networks
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Modeling priority-based incentive policies for peer-assisted content delivery systems
NETWORKING'08 Proceedings of the 7th international IFIP-TC6 networking conference on AdHoc and sensor networks, wireless networks, next generation internet
Tree network coding for peer-to-peer networks
Proceedings of the twenty-second annual ACM symposium on Parallelism in algorithms and architectures
TopBT: a topology-aware and infrastructure-independent bittorrent client
INFOCOM'10 Proceedings of the 29th conference on Information communications
P2P trading in social networks: the value of staying connected
INFOCOM'10 Proceedings of the 29th conference on Information communications
Leveraging social networks for increased bittorrent robustness
CCNC'10 Proceedings of the 7th IEEE conference on Consumer communications and networking conference
Resisting free-riding behavior in BitTorrent
Future Generation Computer Systems
Privacy-preserving P2P data sharing with OneSwarm
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2010 conference
Improving peer-to-peer file distribution: winner doesn't have to take all
Proceedings of the first ACM asia-pacific workshop on Workshop on systems
Home is where the (fast) internet is: flat-rate compatible incentives for reducing peak load
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Home networks
BTWorld: towards observing the global BitTorrent file-sharing network
Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
Improving BitTorrent: a simple approach
IPTPS'08 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Peer-to-peer systems
Contracts: practical contribution incentives for P2P live streaming
NSDI'10 Proceedings of the 7th USENIX conference on Networked systems design and implementation
Comparing BitTorrent clients in the wild: the case of download speed
IPTPS'10 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Peer-to-peer systems
Estimating self-sustainability in peer-to-peer swarming systems
Performance Evaluation
Collusion-resilient credit-based reputations for peer-to-peer content distribution
Proceedings of the 2010 Workshop on Economics of Networks, Systems, and Computation
It's on me! the benefit of altruism in BAR environment
DISC'10 Proceedings of the 24th international conference on Distributed computing
RatFish: a file sharing protocol provably secure against rational users
ESORICS'10 Proceedings of the 15th European conference on Research in computer security
Balancing throughput, robustness, and in-order delivery in P2P VoD
Proceedings of the 6th International COnference
Is content publishing in BitTorrent altruistic or profit-driven?
Proceedings of the 6th International COnference
Comet: an active distributed key-value store
OSDI'10 Proceedings of the 9th USENIX conference on Operating systems design and implementation
P2P soft security: On evolutionary dynamics of P2P incentive mechanism
Computer Communications
On long-term social relationships in peer-to-peer systems
Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Workshop on Quality of Service
Design space analysis for modeling incentives in distributed systems
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2011 conference
A content propagation metric for efficient content distribution
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2011 conference
On the impact of seed scheduling in peer-to-peer networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Impact of user selfishness in construction action on the streaming quality of overlay multicast
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Effective digital forensics research is investigator-centric
HotSec'11 Proceedings of the 6th USENIX conference on Hot topics in security
Quantifying downloading performance of locality-aware bittorrent protocols
ICCSA'11 Proceedings of the 2011 international conference on Computational science and Its applications - Volume Part V
An adversarial evaluation of network signaling and control mechanisms
ICISC'10 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Information security and cryptology
Review: A survey on content-centric technologies for the current Internet: CDN and P2P solutions
Computer Communications
BitTorrent for the less privileged
Proceedings of the 10th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks
Bilateral and multilateral exchanges for peer-assisted content distribution
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Price differentiation all-pay auction-based incentives in bittorrent
GPC'10 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Advances in Grid and Pervasive Computing
A detailed examination of the overlay construction and maintenance mechanism in BitTorrent
Computer Communications
OPODIS'11 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Principles of Distributed Systems
Bundling practice in BitTorrent: what, how, and why
Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGMETRICS/PERFORMANCE joint international conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems
Single-Hop friends recommendation and verification based incentive for bittorrent
APWeb'12 Proceedings of the 14th Asia-Pacific international conference on Web Technologies and Applications
Building a modular BitTorrent model for ns-3
Proceedings of the 5th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques
Content publishing and downloading practice in bittorrent
IFIP'12 Proceedings of the 11th international IFIP TC 6 conference on Networking - Volume Part II
Multi-resource fair queueing for packet processing
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2012 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Server-assisted latency management for wide-area distributed systems
USENIX ATC'12 Proceedings of the 2012 USENIX conference on Annual Technical Conference
P2P as a CDN: A new service model for file sharing
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Denial-of-service attacks and countermeasures on BitTorrent
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Multi-resource fair queueing for packet processing
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review - Special october issue SIGCOMM '12
The Peer's Dilemma: A general framework to examine cooperation in pure peer-to-peer systems
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
DCast: sustaining collaboration in overlay multicast despite rational collusion
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM conference on Computer and communications security
Juno: A Middleware Platform for Supporting Delivery-Centric Applications
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)
Changing the unchoking policy for an enhanced bittorrent
Euro-Par'12 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Parallel Processing
FairTorrent: a deficit-based distributed algorithm to ensure fairness in peer-to-peer systems
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Modeling BitTorrent-like systems with many classes of users
ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS)
BitTorrent-like P2P approaches for VoD: A comparative study
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Future Generation Computer Systems
Measurement and analysis of child pornography trafficking on P2P networks
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web
Content availability and bundling in swarming systems
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Peer-assisted content distribution in Akamai netsession
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Internet measurement conference
Robust Regulation Adaptation in Multi-Agent Systems
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS)
Benchmarking Peer-to-Peer Systems
EnhancedBit: Unleashing the potential of the unchoking policy in the BitTorrent protocol
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Unveiling the incentives for content publishing in popular BitTorrent portals
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
On the performance and fairness of BitTorrent-like data swarming systems with NAT devices
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
TorrentGuard: Stopping scam and malware distribution in the BitTorrent ecosystem
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
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A fundamental problem with many peer-to-peer systems is the tendency for users to "free ride"--to consume resources without contributing to the system. The popular file distribution tool BitTorrent was explicitly designed to address this problem, using a tit-for-tat reciprocity strategy to provide positive incentives for nodes to contribute resources to the swarm. While BitTorrent has been extremely successful, we show that its incentive mechanism is not robust to strategic clients. Through performance modeling parameterized by real world traces, we demonstrate that all peers contribute resources that do not directly improve their performance. We use these results to drive the design and implementation of BitTyrant, a strategic BitTorrent client that provides a median 70% performance gain for a 1 Mbit client on live Internet swarms. We further show that when applied universally, strategic clients can hurt average per-swarm performance compared to today's BitTorrent client implementations.