Bittorrent Memo

1. Bittorrent Protocol Specification v1.0
Refer: http://jonas.nitro.dk/bittorrent/bittorrent-rfc.html

2. Bittorrent Simulator/Emulator
a. Bittorrent-like in NS-2: http://www.tu-harburg.de/et6/research/bittorrentsim/index.html
b. GPS - General Purpose Simulator for P2P network: http://www.cs.binghamton.edu/~wyang/gps/
c. NCTUns 5.0 Network Simulator and Emulator: http://nsl.csie.nctu.edu.tw/nctuns.html

Enter the NCTUns web site here. The NCTUns 5.0 package, its GUI user manual, its protocol developer manual, and its 77 demo video clips are stored inside. The nctuns mailing list can be accessed here at http://nsl10.csie.nctu.edu.tw/pipermail/nctuns . The NCTUns forum can be accessed here at http://nsl10.csie.nctu.edu.tw/phpBB .

d. P2PLab Emulator: http://www.loria.fr/~lnussbau/p2plab.html
e. ModelNet Emulator: http://modelnet.ucsd.edu/ , http://www.evergrow.org/modelnet/
f. P2P-CD, Python: http://www-sop.inria.fr/planete/Arnaud.Legout/Projects/p2p_cd.html
g. Enhanced CTorrent: http://www.rahul.net/dholmes/ctorrent/

3. Bittorret Modified Client for Research
a. Top-BT: An Infrastructure Free BitTorrent Client with Fast Download Time and Less Internet Traffic:
http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~sren/topbt/

4. Open Source Bittorrent
a. libbt - C + Linux: http://libbt.sourceforge.net/
b. mod_bt - Making things better for seeders, C + Linux: http://www.crackerjack.net/mod_bt/index.html
c. libtorrent - C++, Boost: http://sourceforge.net/projects/libtorrent

5. Applications
ABC , AllPeers , Vuze (formerly Azureus), BitComet , BitLord , BitTornado , BitTorrent ,
Burst! , Deluge , FlashGet , G3 Torrent , Halite , KTorrent , LimeWire , MLDonkey , Opera ,
QTorrent , rTorrent , Shareaza , TorrentFlux , Transmission , Tribler , µTorrent , Xunlei

6. Bittorrent Forum or Website
http://www.bittorrent.org/
http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/bittorrent/
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/The_Foundation_for_P2P_Alternatives

7. Video from Bram Cohen
http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/courses/ee380/050216-ee380-100.asx
This is a video talked by Bram Cohen (creator of Bittorrent) which focusing on what the interesting problems in studying BitTorrent are. You can watch the talk online. If you have any intentions of doing academic work on BitTorrent, you should watch it.

8. Economics

http://www.stanford.edu/~yyye/

http://www.cs.duke.edu/~conitzer/

http://net3.hkbu.edu.hk/~wkyeung/

http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Economics/working.html

9. Courses

http://www.ict.kth.se/courses/ID2210/

10. Links

Tribler: http://www.pds.ewi.tudelft.nl/

http://multiprobe.ewi.tudelft.nl/

11. Private Tracker

News:

Invites: The Top 50 Most Requested Private Trackers, December 17, 2008
The 100 Most Popular Private Trackers Of 2008, December 31, 2008
13 New Private Trackers: September 2009 Edition, September 03, 2009

http://filesharingz.com/

Websites:

http://www.torrentbits.ro/faqen.php
http://cinematik.net/rules.php
http://freshon.tv/faq_en.php

http://www.ilovetorrents.com (in Canada)
http://lasttorrents.org (Romania, in Sweden)
http://chdbits.org (Wuxi, Jiangsu, in China)