On the Impact of Concurrent Downloads

Concurrent downloads accelerate information access speed for individual web user s. The speed-up comes from multiple connections launched for one subject download, which leads to unfairness at user level. In this paper, we study the impact of concurr ent downloads on the network. Particularly, we investigate the fairness between user s who employ different downloading concurrency. We also discuss how concurrent downloa ds affect the transient behavior of the network.