TopBT: A Topology-Aware and Infrastructure-Independent BitTorrent Client

—BitTorrent (BT) has carried out a significant and continuously increasing portion of Internet traffic. While several designs have been recently proposed and implemented to improve the resource utilization by bridging the application layer (overlay) and the network layer (underlay), these designs are largely dependent on Internet infrastructures, such as ISPs and CDNs. In addition, they also demand large-scale deployments of their systems to work effectively. Consequently, they require multiefforts far beyond individual users’ ability to be widely used in the Internet. In this paper, aiming at building an infrastructure-independent user-level facility, we present our design, implementation, and evaluation of a topology-aware BT system, called TopBT, to significantly improve the overall Internet resource utilization without degrading user downloading performance. The unique feature of TopBT client lies in that a TopBT client actively discovers network proximities (to connected pe...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: INFOCOM
• Authors: Shansi Ren, Enhua Tan, Tian Luo, Songqing Chen, Lei Guo, Xiaodong Zhang
• Keywords: Communications, INFOCOM 2010, Internet, Large-scale Deployment, Topbt Clients