---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Umar Saif <u...@lums.edu.pk> Hi - I am not sure if I have sent an email regarding our BitTorrent client designed for low-bandwidth nodes in the developing-world. We released BitMate almost a year ago -- to date, it has been downloaded more than 35,000 times by users from 173 countries. It is fully compliant with the BitTorrent protocol and compatible with existing BitTorrent clients. BitMate is implemented using azureus (Vuze) code base. We have subtly changed the underlying mechanism (GPL'ed) without changing the UI or the codebase that deals with the Vuze platform. BitMate is designed to specifically improve the performance of low-bandwidth peers (5-20 KB/sec); in our target conditions, Bitmate can almost double your download performance. At the same time, it performs at least as well as the traditional BitTorrent clients for high-bandwidth peers (but you'll see most performance benefit for low-bandwidth peers in the developing-world). Importantly, it improves its performance without cheating (strategic behavior). Instead, it actually improves its download performance by improving its upload contribution (by as much as 1000% !) More info: http://www.dritte.org/bitmate.html Code + download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitmate/ ( https://github.com/umairwaheed/BitMate) Our ACM HotNets'11 paper: http://people.csail.mit.edu/umar/hotnetsX-final40.pdf Cheers, -Umar