An empirical evaluation of wide-area internet bottlenecks
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
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
TCP Nice: a mechanism for background transfers
OSDI '02 Proceedings of the 5th symposium on Operating systems design and implementationCopyright restrictions prevent ACM from being able to make the PDFs for this conference available for downloading
TCP-LP: low-priority service via end-point congestion control
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
TCP offload is a dumb idea whose time has come
HOTOS'03 Proceedings of the 9th conference on Hot Topics in Operating Systems - Volume 9
Clustering and sharing incentives in BitTorrent systems
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Detailed analysis of Skype traffic
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
A Dynamic Algorithm for Stabilising LEDBAT Congestion Window
ICCNT '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Second International Conference on Computer and Network Technology
Yes, we LEDBAT: playing with the new BitTorrent congestion control algorithm
PAM'10 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Passive and active measurement
Application flow control in YouTube video streams
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
A hands-on assessment of transport protocols with lower than best effort priority
LCN '10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE 35th Conference on Local Computer Networks
Delay-based congestion control: Flow vs. BitTorrent swarm perspectives
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
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BitTorrent, one of the most widespread used P2P application for file-sharing, recently got rid of TCP by introducing an application-level congestion control protocol named uTP. The aim of this new protocol is to efficiently use the available link capacity, while minimizing its interference with the rest of user traffic (e.g., Web, VoIP and gaming) sharing the same access bottleneck. In this paper we perform an experimental study of the impact of uTP on the torrent completion time, the metric that better captures the user experience. We run BitTorrent applications in a flash crowd scenario over a dedicated cluster platform, under both homogeneous and heterogeneous swarm population. Experiments show that an all-uTP swarms have shorter torrent download time with respect to all-TCP swarms. Interestingly, at the same time, we observe that even shorter completion times can be achieved under mixtures of TCP and uTP traffic, as in the default BitTorrent settings.