MTorrent: A multicast enabled BitTorrent protocol

Author

Agrawal, Pulin ; Khandelwal, Hitesh ; Ghosh, R.K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

5-9 Jan. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

10

Abstract

In this paper we address the problem of repetitive data transmission in BitTorrent. and propose a new protocol called MTorrent to restrict the same by exploiting IP Multicast functionality wherever available. A prototype system of our protocol have been implemented, and large scale measurement studies were conducted over Emulab network consisting of 44 nodes, spread over 9 LANs and 36 end clients. MTorrent leads to 44% reduction in download time, 65% reduction in traffic load on the Internet links and 40% reduction in download of redundant packets when compared to the BitTorrent. MTorrent is interoperable with BitTorrent, and requires only a few changes at the client end.

Keywords

IP networks; Internet; local area networks; multicast protocols; Emulab network; Internet links; LAN; MTorrent protocol; data transmission; multicast-enabled BitTorrent protocol; traffic load; Access protocols; Data communication; Delay; Internet; Large-scale systems; Multicast protocols; Prototypes; Stress; USA Councils; Unicast;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS), 2010 Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bangalore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5487-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/COMSNETS.2010.5431979

Filename

5431979