An Enhanced BitTorrent Protocol Supporting Multiple Network Accesses

摘要

We present our architecture which uses an enhanced BitTorrent protocol, supports multiple network accesses simultaneously, and localizes information retrieval. Our results showed that, for the scenario considered, the median download duration is reduced by more than 33 % compared to standard BitTorrent. The load on the inter-domain backbone was also significantly reduced. Since the information is localized, one would expect that it puts a high load on the gateway routers inside a network domain. However, the number of packets received by gateway routers was reduced by 62 %. The nodes could also send data at higher rates, recording a 63 % increase. The results display similar behavior to the prototype experiments.