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A quantitative version of this covariation mechanism that seems to generate limited area constancy is proposed, and its relation to Parducci's range-frequency theory is discussed. Children judged area dependent on shape, but dependent on the covariation Cset of area and shape in the experimental set of rectangles, rather than on the particular shape of the rectangle judged. limited area constancy (ai is the perceived area, Ai and Si the physical area and shape of rectangle i). Following Brunswik (1934a), we call this dependency the “limited perceptual constancy of area under variation of shape.” A series of four experiments (with 150 children and 80 adults) using ordinal paired comparisons rejected the general equation ai = (Ai, Si) as a model of. The perceptual constancy view posits that children perceive rectangular areas dependent on shape, whereas adults do not. We further show that when applied universally, strategic clients can hurt average per-swarm performance compared to today's BitTorrent client implementations. We use these results to drive the design and implementation of BitTyrant, a strategic BitTorrent client that provides a median 70% performance gain for a 1 Mbit client on live Internet swarms. Through performance modeling parameterized by real world traces, we demonstrate that all peers contribute resources that do not directly improve their performance.

While BitTorrent has been extremely successful, we show that its incentive mechanism is not robust to strategic clients. The popular file distribution tool BitTorrent was explicitly designed to address this problem, using a tit-for-tat reciprocity strategy to provide positive incentives for nodes to contribute resources to the swarm. Our findings show the seriousness of the problem and should be the basis for the development of new mechanisms to increase BitTorrent security.Ī fundamental problem with many peer-to-peer systems is the tendency for users to 'free ride'-to consume resources without contributing to the system. To evaluate the impact of attacks, a discrete-event simulator was developed and validated against an experimental evaluation performed in a controlled environment. The paper sheds light on BitTorrent behavior by presenting state diagrams, describes two attacks, and then evaluates their negative impact in realistic swarm settings. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to evaluate the impact of attacks that exploit BitTorrent vulnerabilities with the sole intention of harming a swarm. Related research efforts so far have focused on modeling the dynamics of swarms, as well as devising incentive mechanisms that improve fairness without sacrificing efficiency. Its wide adoption has exposed some potential problems, like selfish peer behavior. BitTorrent has become one of the most popular Internet applications, given the number of users and the fraction of the Internet traffic it consumes.

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