Understanding BitTorrent: An Experimental Perspective

Arnaud Legout, Guillaume Urvoy-Keller, Pietro Michiardi: Understanding BitTorrent: An Experimental Perspective. "To gain a better understanding of the key algorithms of the protocol, we have instrumented a client and run experiments on a large number of real torrents. Our experimental evaluation is peer oriented, instead of tracker oriented, which allows us to get detailed information on all exchanged messages and protocol events. In particular, we have explored the properties of the two key algorithms of BitTorrent: the choke and the rarest first algorithms."
Why this post - cause there have been Torrents of Office12 (yeah - you heard it right) floating on the internet!!!