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Abstract:
Distributed applications -- such as file sharing, real-time communication,
and live and on-demand media streaming -- prevalent on the Internet use a significant amount of
network resources. Such applications often transfer large amounts of data through connections established between nodes distributed
across the Internet with little knowledge of the underlying network topology. Some applications are so designed
that they choose a random subset of peers from a larger set with which to exchange
data. Absent any topology information guiding such choices, or acting on suboptimal
or local information obtained from measurements and statistics, these applications
often make less than desirable choices.
Authors:
Jan Seedorf <jan.seedorf@nw.neclab.eu>
Eric Burger <eburger@standardstrack.com>
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