BitTorrent Experiments on Testbeds: A Study of the Impact of Network Latencies

Ashwin Rao (1) , Arnaud Legout (1) , Walid Dabbous (1)

1 PLANETE - Protocols and applications for the Internet

In this paper, we study the impact of network latency on the time required to download a file distributed using BitTorrent. This study is essential to understand if testbeds can be used for experimental evaluation of BitTorrent. We observe that the network latency has a marginal impact on the time required to download a file; hence, BitTorrent experiments can performed on testbeds.

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Ashwin Rao, Arnaud Legout, Walid Dabbous. BitTorrent Experiments on Testbeds: A Study of the Impact of Network Latencies. JDIR, 2010, Sophia Antipolis, France. ⟨inria-00467560⟩