Application Layer Traffic Optimization in the eMule System

Author

Sheng, Lijie ; Song, Jianfeng ; Dong, Xuewen ; Xie, Kun

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Xidian Univ., Xi´´an, China

fYear

2010

fDate

9-15 May 2010

Firstpage

217

Lastpage

222

Abstract

Application Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) tends to reduce cross-network traffic that P2P software generates via guiding peers to connect to near sources and download from them when there are many sources available in network. The previous researches about ALTO were mostly carried on BitTorrent. The famous and popular P2P software, eMule, was neglected in ALTO studies. EMule is quite different from BitTorrent in various aspects. In this paper, we study how to integrate ALTO mechanism into the eMule system. Three methods are proposed, and one of them is studied in detail with simulation experiments. Experiment results show that the ALTO mechanism can decrease average download time and cross-network traffic at the same time. The drawback of the mechanism is also discovered, i.e., it introduces unfairness in download time for peers far away from the seed.

Keywords

peer-to-peer computing; telecommunication traffic; BitTorrent; P2P software; application layer traffic optimization; eMule; Application software; Computer science; IP networks; Internet telephony; Peer to peer computing; Streaming media; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; Watches; Web and internet services; ALTO; P2P; eMule;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Internet and Web Applications and Services (ICIW), 2010 Fifth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Barcelona

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6728-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIW.2010.39

Filename

5476755