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title: Are We Fast Yet

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# Are We Fast Yet

Parameters:

* Modes: BitTorrent, Codex Erasure-Coded, Codex Non-Erasure-Coded
* Swarm Size `(leechers, seeders)`: 
    * `# TODO look at some swarms and make sure this makes sense`
    * size: 2, 8, 16, 32 
    * seeders: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16
    * file size: $100$MB, $1$GB, $5$GB


* Measurements:
    * completion distribution (track individual blocks?)


* Scenario:
    * start dedicated bootstrap node (Codex) or dedicated tracker (BitTorrent);
    * start all nodes in swarm;
    * upload files to seeders;
    * start the download at the leechers;
    * wait for download to complete at all nodes;
    * export event logs as CSV.

* We'll deem the performance of the system to be close to BitTorrent if we're able to:
    * we're no more than 20% slower than BitTorrent in all of the above scenarios.
