A Peer-to-Peer Swarm Creation and Management Framework

The continuous development of Internet bandwidth, communication and content variety have enabled peer-to-peer protocols to take place among the most heavily used protocols in the Internet, with BitTorrent as the current flagship. Recent research has focused on measuring Peer-to-Peer systems and proposing improvements and enhancements to existing protocol with the goal of ensuring rapid content distribution and general user satisfaction. In this paper we present a framework that allows easy swarm creation and control for different BitTorrent clients. With the help of a virtualized infrastructure and a client-server software layer we are able to create, command and manage large sized BitTorrent swarms. The framework allows a user to run, schedule, start, stop clients within a swarm and collect information regarding their behavior.