Achieving high-bandwidth peer-to-peer file distribution

ABSTRACT

Commercial entities have started using peer-to-peer (P2P) algorithms for file distribution. For example, Sub Pop Records and Blizzard Entertainment use BitTorrent [2] to distribute large files to their clients. Given that last-mile bandwidths to home users are increasing rapidly, a P2P approach is perhaps the only viable solution to avoid a bottleneck at the servers. Furthermore, the fact that P2P algorithms exploit the bandwidth available to the clients and reduces the provisioning costs at the server, makes P2P even more attractive.

REFERENCES

• 1: A. R. Bharambe, C. Herley, and V. N. Padmanabhan. Analyzing and improving a BitTorrent networks performance mechanisms. In Proceedings of INFOCOM '06.
• 2: B. Cohen. Incentives build robustness in bittorrent. In Proceedings of the P2P Economics Workshop, 2003.
• 3: R. Sherwood, R. Braud, and B. Bhattacharjee. Slurpie: A cooperative bulk data transfer protocol. In Proceedings of the IEEE INFOCOM 2004.

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  C. Computer Systems Organization
  C.2 COMPUTER-COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
      C.2.4 Distributed Systems

Additional Classification:
  C. Computer Systems Organization
  C.2 COMPUTER-COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
      C.2.0 General
          Subjects: Data communications
  C.4 PERFORMANCE OF SYSTEMS

General Terms:
Design, Experimentation, Measurement, Performance