Title :
A novel incentive mechanism in BitTorrent network
Author :
Zhang, Jianwei ; Xing, Wei ; Lu, Dongming
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China
Abstract :
BitTorrent has proved to be the most effective and popular P2P file distribution application in recent years. In order to improve the fairness of BitTorrent network, a novel incentive mechanism (proportional uploading mechanism), which consists of bandwidth limitation strategy for the seed and bandwidth allocation strategy for all peers, is proposed. Simulation results show that, compared with the default strategy and another representative block-based strategy, the proposed mechanism can improve piece diversity and fairness of the BitTorrent network remarkably and at the same time, can reduce the load on the seed by a large margin.
Keywords :
bandwidth allocation; peer-to-peer computing; BitTorrent network; P2P file distribution; bandwidth allocation strategy; bandwidth limitation strategy; incentive mechanism; representative block-based strategy; Bandwidth; Channel allocation; Conferences; Measurement; Peer to peer computing; Protocols; Thin film transistors; BitTorrent; fairness; incentive mechanism; upload bandwidth;
Conference_Titel :
Communication Technology (ICCT), 2011 IEEE 13th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Jinan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-306-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICCT.2011.6157926
