Zero-Day Reconciliation of BitTorrent Users With Their ISPs

M. Slot; P. Costa; G.E.O. Pierre; V. Rai

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-03869-3_53

Zero-Day Reconciliation of BitTorrent Users With Their ISPs

M. Slot, P. Costa, G.E.O. Pierre, V. Rai

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BitTorrent users and consumer ISPs are often pictured as having opposite interests, with end-users aggressively trying to improve their download times, while ISPs throttle this traffic to reduce their costs. However, inefficiencies in both download time and quantity of long-distance traffic originate in BitTorrent randomly selecting peers to interact with. We show that biasing the link selection allows one to reduce both median download times by up to 32% and long-distance traffic by up to 16%. This optimization can be deployed by modifying only the BitTorrent trackers. No external infrastructure nor specialized client-side software deployment is necessary, thereby facilitating the adoption of our technique.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	561-573
Journal	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume	5704
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03869-3_53
Publication status	Published - 2009
Event	Euro-Par 2009 - Berlin, Germany Duration: 1 Jan 2009 → 1 Jan 2009

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Proceedings title: Proceedings of the Euro-Par Conference
Publisher: Springer
Place of publication: Berlin, Germany
ISBN: 3-642-03868-9
Editors: H. Sips, D. Epema, H.-X. Lin

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