IMP: ISP-Managed P2P

Author

James, Shakir ; Crowley, Patrick

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

25-27 Aug. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

9

Abstract

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have failed to independently reduce the cost peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic. Traffic- throttling devices increase user download times, and caches store content that may infringe copyright. We propose ISP-Managed P2P (IMP): a transparent peer-discovery service that returns peers favorable to ISPs. Unlike similar services, IMP does not require the direct support of developers who have no incentive to cooperate. This paper covers the design, implementation, and experimental evaluation of our IMP prototype, which reduces costly, cross-ISP traffic by eight times without significantly increasing user download times.

Keywords

Internet; computer network management; computer network security; copyright; peer-to-peer computing; telecommunication traffic; ISP-managed P2P; Internet service providers; infringe copyright; peer-to-peer traffic; traffic-throttling devices; transparent peer-discovery service; Network topology; Peer to peer computing; Protocols; Prototypes; Radiation detectors; Random access memory; Topology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P), 2010 IEEE Tenth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Delft

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7140-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-7139-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/P2P.2010.5569959

Filename

5569959