some questions on how to study the bittorent.

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

In <1152343601.736864.192460 at m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com>, Moore Liu
wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I am very interesting in the detailed implement of bittorrent and have
> read some p2p protocol document, but I want to know more of the
> technique implementation. It's time-consuming to reverse-engineering
> the code to understand the design intention of it. So my question is:
> 
> Is there any well written "Design document" we can find, which descibe
> the detail technical in the code. For example: the seed format, the
> algorithm of how to divide the files into blocks, how to schdule
> threads, how to decide which part of the file should be receive first,
> the credit system(something like that in the eMule), and so on...

You can start with the `protocol description`_ on the BitTorrent website
and the `BitTorrent Economics Paper`_.

.. _protocol description: http://www.bittorrent.org/protocol.html
.. _BitTorrent Economics Paper:
   http://www.bittorrent.com/bittorrentecon.pdf

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch