Improving Locality of BitTorrent with ISP Cooperation

Author

Ruan, Binbin ; Xiong, Wei ; Chen, Hao ; Ye, Dejian

Author_Institution

Multimedia & Networking Lab., Fudan Univ., Shanghai

fYear

2009

fDate

20-22 Feb. 2009

Firstpage

443

Lastpage

447

Abstract

The P2P flows have occupied the dominating network bandwidth in current Internet and have increased the operation cost of ISP due to abundant flows between different ISPs. An important issue under research is how to make P2P be ISP-friendliness when they are competing with other applications. In this paper, we take BitTorrent as a popular P2P application example and propose a scheme based on ISP cooperation to improve locality of BitTorrent. This scheme confines the flows of BitTorrent inside ISP as many as possible to reduce the cost of flows between different ISPs. The simulation results of our prototype shows that this scheme reduces the load of the link between ISPs while it also decreases the download time of BitTorrent. This scheme can be used as reference to other P2P applications to deal with ISP-friendliness issue.

Keywords

Internet; peer-to-peer computing; BitTorrent; ISP cooperation; Internet; P2P flows; network bandwidth; peer-to-peer system; Bandwidth; Computer networks; Costs; File servers; Laboratories; Network servers; Network topology; Peer to peer computing; Target tracking; Virtual prototyping; BitTorrent; ISP; P2P; locality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronic Computer Technology, 2009 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Macau

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3559-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECT.2009.127

Filename

4796001