Deciding how many outstanding requests to keep to peers typically is based on the bandwidth delay product, or a simplified model thereof. The bandwidth delay product is the bandwidth capacity…Deciding how many outstanding requests to keep to peers typically is based on the bandwidth delay product, or a simplified model thereof. The bandwidth delay product . . .
timing out requests, and requesting blocks from other peers, may seem like a straight forward and trivial problem. However, there’s a balance to be struck between timing out a block…timing out requests, and requesting blocks from other peers, may seem like a straight forward and trivial problem. However, there’s a balance to be struck between . . .
banning peers sending corrupt data Bittorrent lets you verify data you receive from the swarm against the SHA-1 hashes in the .torrent file. This enable clients to ban peers that…banning peers sending corrupt data Bittorrent lets you verify data you receive from the swarm against the SHA-1 hashes in the .torrent file. This enable clients . . .
The typical bittorrent client user interface shows you a list of all torrents loaded in the client. Some of these torrents may be stopped and inactive, some of them may…The typical bittorrent client user interface shows you a list of all torrents loaded in the client. Some of these torrents may be stopped and inactive, . . .
The typical design of bittorrent clients is to run SHA-1 hashing of piece data as it’s being written to disk (typically in a disk thread). Doing this helps keeping a…The typical design of bittorrent clients is to run SHA-1 hashing of piece data as it’s being written to disk (typically in a disk thread). Doing . . .
One of the key algorithms in bittorrent is the rarest-first piece picker. It is vital to bittorrent’s performance that the piece picker fulfills both of these requirements: The rarest piece…One of the key algorithms in bittorrent is the rarest-first piece picker. It is vital to bittorrent’s performance that the piece picker fulfills both of these . . .