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SUMMARY:Torrenting for Free - Reetobrata Chatterjee
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CONTACT:Matthew Ireland
DESCRIPTION:BitTorrent is one of the most well-known file sharing protocol
 s in the world. Its rapid rise in popularity is mainly due to the high spe
 eds it can offer its users\, even with a very limited infrastructure.\n\nB
 ut can a user download any faster? A traditional distributed system often 
 consists of trusted nodes which co-operate in order to maximise the perfor
 mance of the system as a whole\, even if it means getting worse performanc
 e for a single node. In a torrent swarm however\, a user is communicating 
 with a bunch of strangers. Is it possible to download faster by degrading 
 the performance of the system? This talk considers possible ways to exploi
 t the BitTorrent protocol in order to download as fast as possible.
LOCATION:Jock Colville Hall\, Churchill College
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