#RubyTorrent

Started off as a class project at UMD in CMSC417 with Bobby, hopefully we'll get some development going forward over the next few months.

###Plan

• Implement a BitTorrent client
  • Should be able to interoperate with commercial/open-source clients

• Demonstrate our implementation downloads files within 10% of the speed of an official client (with a comprable number of peers)
• Devise an experiment to demonstrate our client is fast enough and stable in comparison to the official BitTorrent client

###Wishlist

• Useable interface
• DHT tracker
• PropShare[1], compare performance to official client
• Under-reporting, compare performance to official client
• A protocol to detect under-reporting

###Notes

• See here

###Usage

• See here

###References [1] Dave Levin, Katrina LaCurts, Neil Spring, and Bobby Bhattacharjee. Bittorrent is an auction: Analyzing and improving bittorrent's incentives. SIGCOMM Comput. Commun. Rev., 38(4):243–254, August 2008.