Free Riding in BitTorrent is Cheap
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چکیده
Popular P2P system with centralized coordinator (tracker), whose address can be found in the torrent metafile. Nodes divided into seeders owning a complete download of the file and leechers, which are still in progress of downloading the file. Upload decisions are made using a choking algorithm based on the download rates received from remote peers. At regular intervals an optimistic unchoke takes place which allows new peers to participate more quickly. Choking algorithm is similar to tit for tat.
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