Abstract
BitTorrent is a highly popular peer-to-peer filesharing protocol. Much BitTorrent activity takes place within private virtual communities called "Private Trackers" - a server that allows only community members to share files. Many private trackers implement "ratio enforcement" where the tracker monitors the upload and download behaviour of peers. If a peer downloads substantially more than it uploads then service is terminated. Tracker policies related to credit effect the performance of the community as a whole. We identify the possibility of a "credit squeeze" in which performance is reduced due to lack of credit for some peers. We consider statistics from a popular private tracker and results from a simple model (called "BitCrunch"). © 2009 IEEE.
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Hales, D., Rahman, R., Zhang, B., Meulpolder, M., & Pouwelse, J. (2009). BitTorrent or BitCrunch: Evidence of a credit squeeze in BitTorrent? In Proceedings of the Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, WETICE (pp. 99–104). https://doi.org/10.1109/WETICE.2009.22
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