Traffic Shaping in BitTorrent Systems by Centralized Hierarchical Peer-Node Assignment

Author

Wang, Ting ; Wen, Li ; Li, Wei ; Tao, Jing ; Wang, Alan ; Baker, Fred

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Fudan Univ., Shanghai

fYear

2008

Firstpage

1787

Lastpage

1791

Abstract

Peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing system such as BitTorrent performs better than traditional client-server system in "flash-crowd" scenario taking advantage of "perpendicular" bandwidth between peer nodes. However large amount of backbone bandwidth in the Internet is consumed by these ubiquitous P2P connections. In this paper, we propose centralized hierarchical peer-node assignment (CHPA) to globally manage P2P traffic by intentionally set up connections within local area network. Experiment result shows that: in our experiment environment, CHPA can achieve higher proportion of local area network traffic while download time of BT is not apparently affected.

Keywords

Internet; local area networks; peer-to-peer computing; telecommunication traffic; ubiquitous computing; Internet; P2P traffic shaping; bittorrent system; centralized hierarchical peer-node assignment; client-server system; local area network; peer-to-peer file sharing system; ubiquitous P2P connection; Bandwidth; Communication system traffic control; Communications Society; Internet; Local area networks; Peer to peer computing; Software measurement; Spine; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2008. ICC '08. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2075-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2075-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2008.343

Filename

4533379