DocumentCode :
625214
Title :
IPv6 Peer Availability in BitTorrent Distributed Hash Table
Author :
Milescu, George ; Bardac, Mircea
Author_Institution :
Autom. Control & Comput. Fac., Univ. Politeh. of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
fYear :
2013
fDate :
29-31 May 2013
Firstpage :
532
Lastpage :
536
Abstract :
P2P protocols are responsible for a large amount of the Internet traffic. Given that in such systems each node functions both as a client and as a server, peer connectivity is an important element that influences the overall system performance. The introduction of IPv6 solves a part of the NAT traversal connectivity problems that IPv4 had, and allows a larger number of peers to be connectable from the Internet. Moreover, it introduces built-in IPsec capabilities, lowering the overhead security features bring on the network stack. This places P2P systems in an area that would most benefit from IPv6 deployment. Considering that P2P systems mostly rely of the resources provided by each user, the information collected by measuring such systems offers a real image on the hardware and Internet connection available to the home users. For many years BitTorrent has been the P2P protocol with the largest contribution to the P2P traffic in the Internet. This paper analyses one of the peer discovery methods available in BitTorrent, DHT, and compares the number of IPv4 and IPv6 node addresses that are available in the DHT system. The paper results are based on an experiment that measured the largest public swarms available on the file-sharing community called The Pirate Bay.
Keywords :
IP networks; Internet; computer network security; cryptography; home networks; peer-to-peer computing; protocols; telecommunication traffic; BitTorrent distributed hash table; DHT system; IPsec capabilities; IPv4; IPv6 peer availability; Internet connection; Internet traffic; NAT traversal connectivity problems; P2P protocols; P2P systems; The Pirate Bay; file-sharing community; network stack; node functions; overall system performance; overhead security features; peer connectivity; peer discovery methods; Communities; Games; Internet; Magnetic separation; Peer-to-peer computing; Protocols; Routing; BitTorrent; DHT; IPv6; Peer-to-Peer;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Control Systems and Computer Science (CSCS), 2013 19th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bucharest
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-6140-8
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/CSCS.2013.86
Filename :
6569315
Link To Document :
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