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Unraveling BitTorrent’s File Unavailability:Measurements and Analysis. / Kaune, Sebastian; Rumin, Ruben Cuevas; Tyson, Gareth et al.
Proceedings of the IEEE 10th International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P '10). IEEE, 2010. p. 1-9.

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Kaune, S, Rumin, RC, Tyson, G, Mauthe, A, Guerrero, C & Steinmetz, R 2010, Unraveling BitTorrent’s File Unavailability:Measurements and Analysis. in Proceedings of the IEEE 10th International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P '10). IEEE, pp. 1-9, 10th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer, Delft, Netherlands, 1/01/00. https://doi.org/10.1109/P2P.2010.5569991

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Kaune, S., Rumin, R. C., Tyson, G., Mauthe, A., Guerrero, C., & Steinmetz, R. (2010). Unraveling BitTorrent’s File Unavailability:Measurements and Analysis. In Proceedings of the IEEE 10th International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P '10) (pp. 1-9). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/P2P.2010.5569991

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Kaune S, Rumin RC, Tyson G, Mauthe A, Guerrero C, Steinmetz R. Unraveling BitTorrent’s File Unavailability:Measurements and Analysis. In Proceedings of the IEEE 10th International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P '10). IEEE. 2010. p. 1-9 doi: 10.1109/P2P.2010.5569991

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Kaune, Sebastian ; Rumin, Ruben Cuevas ; Tyson, Gareth et al. / Unraveling BitTorrent’s File Unavailability:Measurements and Analysis. Proceedings of the IEEE 10th International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P '10). IEEE, 2010. pp. 1-9

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