[e2e] Open the floodgate

[Arnaud Legout]

Hi

David P. Reed wrote:

> I commend all on this list to study the end-to-end protocol called 
> BitTorrent - with an open mind.   I think that it is a very 
> interesting example of game theory + feedback control, and sad to say, 
> it has captured no interest from the theory community and the 
> measurement/simulation community.
>
I really second you. I think that real implementations of peer-to-peer 
protocols
are far in advance compared to the academic understanding. However, this is,
from my point of view, quite interesting to have the opportunity to 
work, like
a biologist, on existing entities. But this is another story quite out 
of the scope of this thread.

By the way, in the recent PAM2004 workshop, there was a session on P2P,
and a paper from Izal et al. addressed a BitTorrent analysis:


        Dissecting BitTorrent: Five Months in a Torrent's Lifetime

<http://www.pam2004.org/papers/148.pdf>M. Izal, G. Urvoy-Keller, E.W. 
Biersack, P.A. Felber, A. Al Hamra and L. Garc'es-Erice

Regards,
Arnaud.

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