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I’ve decided to post a little more on the concept behind Similarity-Enhanced Transfer P2P.
First off, our basis of understanding of what SET hopes to be is based on this comment from CNET —
“Computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon and Purdue say they’ve conquered one of the frustrations of P2P downloads: the sometimes painfully slow speed.”
SET is to be aimed at the sharing of academic papers throughout the community; and will no doubt have other uses given enough time. They have already been quoted saying it would be effective in the transfers of large data files, for example movies and music.
First off, our basis of understanding of what SET hopes to be is based on this comment from CNET —
“Computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon and Purdue say they’ve conquered one of the frustrations of P2P downloads: the sometimes painfully slow speed.”
SET is to be aimed at the sharing of academic papers throughout the community; and will no doubt have other uses given enough time. They have already been quoted saying it would be effective in the transfers of large data files, for example movies and music.
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This means that it increases the amount of sources available for a given P2P steam (like in the bittorrent protocol - more sources = more throughput). For example if you were downloading a whole movie, it could download “parts” of it from people sharing the trailer to the movie.
If you're interested there is more here: Similarity-Enhanced Transfer P2P