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Characterization of BitTorrent Traffic in a Broadband Access Network

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BitTorrent as one of the leading P2P file sharing applications has dominant traffic in broadband access networks. In this paper we present the main characteristics of BitTorrent traffic based on actual measurements taken from a commercial network. Analysis results at both application- and flow-levels are presented and discussed.

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  1. High Speed Networks Laboratory Dept. of Telecommunications and Media Informatics, Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics, H–1117, Magyar tudósok krt. 2., Budapest, Hungary

    Zoltán Móczár & Sándor Molnár

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  1. Zoltán Móczár
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  1. BME, Távözlési és Médiainformatikai Tanszék, Magyar tudósok krt. 2, 117, Budapest, Hungary

    Róbert Szabó

  2. ArgonST, Network Systems, 17875 Frondoso Dr., San Diego, CA, USA

    Hua Zhu

  3. BME Híradástechnikai Tanszék, Magyar tudósok krt. 2, 117, Budapest, Hungary

    Sándor Imre

  4. Fraunhofer FOKUS Institute for Open Communication Systems, Berlin, Germany

    Ranganai Chaparadza

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Móczár, Z., Molnár, S. (2011). Characterization of BitTorrent Traffic in a Broadband Access Network. In: Szabó, R., Zhu, H., Imre, S., Chaparadza, R. (eds) Access Networks. AccessNets 2010. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 63. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20931-4_14

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