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Yessi Pratiwi — September 28, 2007 / 10:03 pm
Bandwidth is a key concept in many applications. There is no single universal precise definition of bandwidth, as it is vaguely understood to be a measure of how wide a function is in the frequency domain.
Bandwidth is also used in the sense of commodity, referring to something limited or something costing money. In website hosting, the term “bandwidth” is often used metaphorically, to describe the amount of data that can be transferred to or from the website or server, measured in bytes transferred over a prescribed period of time. And you know what? Bandwidth could become a form of “currency” with users paying for downloaded files by uploading more data themselves, researchers say.
Computer scientists used the idea to develop peer-to-peer file-sharing software, which they are asking computer users to try out. The hope is, that they can create a “global marketplace in bandwidth”, where people can trade it as a commodity.
This is designed to tackle a common problem with peer-to-peer networks known as “leeching” or “free-riding”, where users download lots of data but refuse to upload it, in order to minimise their personal bandwidth usage.
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September 29th, 2007 at 1:38 am