A huge omission (Score 1)

"For the purpose of this paper we assume symmetric links, where the download capacity is equal to the upload capacity of a node and both capacities are independent. We have experimented with asymmetric access capacities and observed very similar results and thus we omit the details of this case." That's a bit sad according to me, because "this case" as call it, is the most common case out there. Both assumptions are false : - lines are not symmetric - upload and download have an effect on each over (on dsl lines at least). The paper started great, but that's a killer assumption to me, I stopped reading there. So, Avalanche out performs Bittorrent over a LAN? cool ;) Slurpie also claims to out performs Bittorrent, but again, over symmetrical connections ... check Slurpie if you want to check something, because according to their results, it would also outperforms Avalanche.