A BitTorrent Performance Evaluation Framework

Deaconescu, Răzvan; Rughiniș, Răzvan; Țăpuș, Nicolae

doi:10.1109/icns.2009.93

Cited by 9 publications

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“…As reviewed in Section 2.2, many protocols are available for the P2P-based solution. The BT protocol was chosen due to the broad availability of the open source BT client programs, which include aria2c [76], BitTornado [34], Enhanced CTorrent [77], LFTP [78], qBittorrent [36], rTorrent [79], and Transmission [80]. In addition, the actively developed open source project, Libtorrent [81], provides a lot of libraries related to BT protocol.…”

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A Novel Massive Deployment Solution Based on the Peer-to-Peer Protocol

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: The BitTorrent (BT) is a peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing protocol that was developed approximately 20 years ago, is becoming increasingly popular, and has been widely accepted. The BT-based mass deployment system can be used to improve performance and scalability that cannot be achieved by the unicasting, broadcasting, and multicasting protocols. However, when the BT-based system is applied in massive deployments, a major issue related to insufficient temporary storage space to store the whole system image before deploying needs to be resolved. Such problems arose because the system is deployed to the disk space, meaning that it cannot be used for temporary storage. Therefore, a novel BT-based solution that can remove the limitations caused by the insufficient temporary storage issue is proposed. The BT-based mass deployment system was designed by using the file system blocks transferring (FSBT) mechanism. The receiver of the FSBT mechanism can obtain the blocks of the file system from other peers. Then, those blocks will be written directly to raw disks or partitions. The sender of the FSBT mechanism can read the blocks of file systems directly from raw disks or partitions. Then, the blocks can be sent to other peers. This approach solves the insufficient temporary storage issue. The novel BT-based mass deployment system was tested and verified for the configuration consisting of at most 32 personal computers (PCs). To demonstrate the achievable performance of the novel BT-based system, comparisons were made between the novel program and the traditional multicast solutions, as well as other solutions for mass deployment. The proposed BT solution can be much faster than the multicast solution when deploying 11 machines or more. The experimental results demonstrated the feasibility and superior performance of the proposed system. Furthermore, performance comparisons of the proposed BT-based mass deployment system versus other solutions demonstrated the feasibility and efficiency of the proposed solution. In the future, the BT parameters can be further optimized, and the simultaneous read and write features can be implemented to improve the deployment performance. In addition, the BT-based mass deployment system can serve as the basis for the development of other mass deployment systems.

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“…In addition, the actively developed open source project, Libtorrent [81], provides a lot of libraries related to BT protocol. The performance of file distribution developed by the Libtorrent library has proven to be effective by another researcher [76].…”

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“…[11] and [15] describe small-scale experiments, such as running tens of clients on PlanetLab. The work most closely related to ours has been presented in [1], [6] where a platform similar to our BTLab Controller is introduced, however, without the rich analysis tool set we developed. Moreover, the platform requires the direct instrumentation of clients, making it impossible to study closedsource clients such as μTorrent.…”

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BTLab: A System-Centric, Data-Driven Analysis and Measurement Platform for BitTorrent Clients

Szydlowski

Zhao

Kirda

et al. 2011

2011 Proceedings of 20th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN)

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We present BTLab, a distributed platform to measure and analyze the differences between BitTorrent clients. Due to extensibility, and a certain vagueness in the BitTorrent specification, many clients diverge in some aspects from each other. Most research to date disregarded the effects of these differences. BTLab allows us to create and control BitTorrent swarms, composed of hundreds of clients of our choice. We use captured network traffic to measure the performance and uncover the reasons for observed differences. For our experiments, we deployed BTLab on a cluster and on Planetlab and selected four popular BitTorrent clients. Our analysis reveals flaws in piece selection and connection management algorithms that adversely affect the performance of some clients.

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“…A large number of client implementations are available [16], making the BitTorrent protocol the largest contributor to the Internet traffic [6]. From the design perspective, the BitTorrent protocol is built around torrent files that include information about both the content to be distributed, and the bootstrapping process for node (peer) discovery.…”

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IPv6 Peer Availability in BitTorrent Distributed Hash Table

Milescu

Bardac

2013

2013 19th International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science

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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.

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A BitTorrent Performance Evaluation Framework

Cited by 9 publications

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A Novel Massive Deployment Solution Based on the Peer-to-Peer Protocol

A Novel Massive Deployment Solution Based on the Peer-to-Peer Protocol

BTLab: A System-Centric, Data-Driven Analysis and Measurement Platform for BitTorrent Clients

IPv6 Peer Availability in BitTorrent Distributed Hash Table

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