On blind mice and the elephant
John Solomon Otto, Mario A. Sánchez, David Choffnes, Fabián E. Bustamante, Georgos Siganos · 2011
A thorough understanding of the network impact of emerging large-scale distributed systems -- where traffic flows and what it costs -- must encompass users' behavior, the traffic they generate and the topology over which that traffic flows. In the case of BitTorrent, however, previous studies have been limited by narrow perspectives that restrict such analysis.