Slurpie: a cooperative bulk data transfer protocol

Author

Sherwood, Rob ; Braud, Ryan ; Bhattacharjee, Bobby

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Maryland Univ., College Park, MD, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2004

fDate

7-11 March 2004

Firstpage

941

Abstract

We present Slurpie: a peer-to-peer protocol for bulk data transfer. Slurpie is specifically designed to reduce client download times for large, popular files, and to reduce load on servers that serve these files. Slurpie employs a novel adaptive downloading strategy to increase client performance, and employs a randomized backoff strategy to precisely control load on the server. We describe a full implementation of the Slurpie protocol, and present results from both controlled local-area and wide-area testbeds. Our results show that Slurpie clients improve performance as the size of the network increases, and the server is completely insulated from large flash crowds entering the Slurpie network.

Keywords

client-server systems; peer-to-peer computing; transport protocols; Slurpie clients; Slurpie network; Slurpie protocol; adaptive downloading strategy; cooperative bulk data; data transfer protocol; peer-to-peer protocol; Bandwidth; Computer science; Educational institutions; File servers; Insulation; Network servers; Peer to peer computing; Protocols; Testing; Web server;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

INFOCOM 2004. Twenty-third AnnualJoint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies

ISSN

0743-166X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8355-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INFCOM.2004.1356981

Filename

1356981