Title :
BitTorrent vulnerability to free riders: Root causes analysis
Author :
Azzedin, Farag ; Yahaya, Mohammed Onimisi
Author_Institution :
Inf. & Comput. Sci. Dept., King Fahd Univ. of Pet. & Miner., Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Abstract :
BitTorrent has gained popularity as a file sharing environment. The concept of sharing assumes that every peer in the environment contributes. However, the action of not sharing negates the fundamental concepts of BitTorrent. In this paper, we investigate the free riding phenomenon in BitTorrent. Through simulation experiments, we study in detail BitTorrent´s vulnerability to free riders.
Keywords :
peer-to-peer computing; BitTorrent vulnerability; file sharing environment; free riding phenomenon; root causes analysis; Decision making; Games; Monitoring; Peer-to-peer computing; Performance evaluation; Robustness; Sorting; BitTorrent; Distributed systems; choking algorithm; free riding;
Conference_Titel :
High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS), 2014 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bologna
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-5312-7
DOI :
10.1109/HPCSim.2014.6903794
