Title :
Analyzing Content Life Cycle in Mobile Content Sharing Environment
Author :
Csorba, Kristof ; Ekler, Peter ; Kelenyi, I.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Autom. & Appl. Inf., Budapest Univ. of Technol. & Econ., Budapest, Hungary
Abstract :
In this paper we analyze the lifecycle of content shared via the BitTorrent network by focusing on torrents retrieved by mobile phone clients using the MobTorrent application. MobTorrent is a full-feature BitTorrent client for feature phones. It has a profiling mechanism which was used to collect anonymous usage statistics over the last two years. Based on these statistics, we analyze how mobile BitTorrent clients are being used. We also investigate the successfulness of single client sessions by performing additional measurements of peer connection success ratios and download statistics. This research can be considered as a pioneer work in the field of mobile content sharing solutions, as MobTorrent is one of the first and most popular BitTorrent client for features phones.
Keywords :
mobile computing; mobile radio; peer-to-peer computing; MobTorrent application; anonymous usage statistics; content life cycle analysis; mobile BitTorrent clients; mobile content sharing environment; mobile phone client; profiling mechanism; Educational institutions; Histograms; Java; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Multimedia communication; Peer to peer computing; BitTorrent; DHT; measurements; mobile phones; peer-to-peer;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering of Computer Based Systems (ECBS-EERC), 2011 2nd Eastern European Regional Conference on the
Conference_Location :
Bratislava
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0683-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-4418-2
DOI :
10.1109/ECBS-EERC.2011.22
