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CS5412: TORRENTS AND TIT-FOR-TAT

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Example finding from a recent study<br />

Gribble showed that most BitTorrent streams “fail”<br />

He found that the number of concurrent users is often<br />

too small, and the transfer too short, for the incentive<br />

structure to do anything<br />

No time to “learn”<br />

His suggestion: add a simple history mechanism<br />

Behavior from yesterday can be used today. But of<br />

course this ignores “dynamics” seen in the Internet...<br />

<strong>CS5412</strong> Spring 2012 (Cloud Computing: Birman)

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