NDLI: The design trade-offs of BitTorrent-like file sharing protocols

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Lui, John C. S. Chiu, Dah-Ming Fan, Bin
Copyright Year	2009
Abstract	The BitTorrent (BT) file sharing protocol is very popular due to its scalability property and the built-in incentive mechanism to reduce free-riding. However, in designing such P2P file sharing protocols, there is a fundamental trade-off between keeping fairness and providing good performance. In particular, the system can either keep peers (especially those resourceful ones) in the system for as long as possible so as to help the system to achieve better performance, or allow more resourceful peers to finish their download as quickly as possible so as to achieve fairness. The current BT protocol represents only one possible implementation in this whole design space. The objective of this paper is to characterize the design space of BT-like protocols. The rationale for considering fairness in the P2P file sharing context is to use it as a measure of willingness to provide service. We show that there is a wide range of design choices, ranging from optimizing the performance of file download time, to optimizing the overall fairness measure. More importantly, we show that there is a simple and easily implementable design knob so that the system can operate at a particular point in the design space. We also discuss different algorithms, ranging from centralized to distributed, in realizing the design knob. Performance evaluations are carried out, both via simulation and network measurement, to quantify the merits and properties of the BT-like file sharing protocols.
Starting Page	365
Ending Page	376
Page Count	12
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10636692
DOI	10.1109/TNET.2008.2002553
Volume Number	17
Issue Number	2
Journal	IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2009-04-01
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	BitTorrent Fairness File sharing protocol Incentive mechanism Performance
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Computer Networks and Communications Software Computer Science Applications

Sl.	Authority	Responsibilities	Communication Details
1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
5	Website/Portal (Helpdesk)	Queries regarding NDLI and its services	support@ndl.gov.in
6	Contents and Copyright Issues	Queries related to content curation and copyright issues	content@ndl.gov.in
7	National Digital Library of India Club (NDLI Club)	Queries related to NDLI Club formation, support, user awareness program, seminar/symposium, collaboration, social media, promotion, and outreach	clubsupport@ndl.gov.in
8	Digital Preservation Centre (DPC)	Assistance with digitizing and archiving copyright-free printed books	dpc@ndl.gov.in
9	IDR Setup or Support	Queries related to establishment and support of Institutional Digital Repository (IDR) and IDR workshops	idr@ndl.gov.in

The Design Trade-Offs of BitTorrent-Like File Sharing Protocols

The Design Trade-offs of BitTorrent-like File Sharing Protocols

The design trade-offs of bittorrent-like file sharing protocols.

The delicate tradeoffs in bittorrent-like file sharing protocol design (2006)

The delicate tradeoffs in bittorrent-like file sharing protocol design (2006)

Performance of BitTorrent-Like P2P File Sharing Systems inspired by ALTO

Share-Ratio-Based Incentive Mechanism for File Sharing With BitTorrent Protocol

The performance and locality tradeoff in bittorrent-like file sharing systems

Insights on media streaming progress using BitTorrent-like protocols for on-demand streaming

The design trade-offs of BitTorrent-like file sharing protocols

Similar Documents

The Design Trade-Offs of BitTorrent-Like File Sharing Protocols

The Design Trade-offs of BitTorrent-like File Sharing Protocols

The design trade-offs of bittorrent-like file sharing protocols.

The delicate tradeoffs in bittorrent-like file sharing protocol design (2006)

The delicate tradeoffs in bittorrent-like file sharing protocol design (2006)

Performance of BitTorrent-Like P2P File Sharing Systems inspired by ALTO

Share-Ratio-Based Incentive Mechanism for File Sharing With BitTorrent Protocol

The performance and locality tradeoff in bittorrent-like file sharing systems

Insights on media streaming progress using BitTorrent-like protocols for on-demand streaming

The design trade-offs of BitTorrent-like file sharing protocols