Exploring the use of BitTorrent in IPv4/IPv6 hybrid network environment

Author

Wang, Wendong ; Lv, Xiaopeng ; Gong, Xiangyang ; Ma, Jian

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Networking & Switching Technol., Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun., Beijing, China

fYear

2011

fDate

28-30 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

390

Lastpage

394

Abstract

BitTorrent has generated a significant and continuously increasing portion of Internet traffic. Several designs have been recently proposed to reduce the BitTorrent traffic without sacrificing user downloading performance. However, Most of these designs only consider IPv4-only Internet, not thinking about IPv4/IPv6 hybrid network. With the exhaustion of IPv4 addresses and the development of IPv6, the Internet is being converted from IPv4-only into IPv4/IPv6 hybrid. Thus, this paper examines a new approach to making BitTorrent system suitable to IPv4/IPv6 hybrid network, in which the dual-stack peers can share file via IPv4 or IPv6 connection. We present a simulation-based study in a special IPv4/IPv6 hybrid network topology based on CERNET and CERNET2. The simulation results show that our approach can effectively transfer BitTorrent traffic from IPv4 network to IPv6 network.

Keywords

Internet; telecommunication network topology; telecommunication traffic; BitTorrent system; BitTorrent traffic; CERNET2; IPv4 connection; IPv4 network; IPv4-only Internet; IPv6 connection; IPv6 network; Internet traffic; downloading performance; dual-stack peers; hybrid network environment; hybrid network topology; Bandwidth; Educational institutions; IP networks; Internet; Network topology; Peer to peer computing; Servers; BitTorrent; IPv4/IPv6 hybrid network; IPv6; Peer-to-Peer;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Broadband Network and Multimedia Technology (IC-BNMT), 2011 4th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shenzhen

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-158-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICBNMT.2011.6155963

Filename

6155963