Measurement and Analysis of BitTorrent Traffic in Mobile WiMAX Networks

Author

Kim, Seungbae ; Wang, Xiaofei ; Kim, Hyunchul ; Kwon, Ted Taekyoung ; Choi, Yanghee

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Seoul Nat. Univ., Seoul, South Korea

fYear

2010

fDate

25-27 Aug. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

As mobile Internet environments are becoming dominant, how to revamp P2P operations for mobile hosts is gaining more and more attention. In this paper, we carry out empirical traffic measurement of BitTorrent service in various settings (static, bus and subway) in commercial WiMAX networks. To this end, we analyze the connectivity among peers, the download throughput/stability, and the signaling overhead of mobile WiMAX hosts in comparison to a wired (Ethernet) host. We find out the drawbacks of BitTorrent operations in mobile Internet are characterized by lower connection ratio, unstable connections amongst peers, and higher control message overhead.

Keywords

Internet; WiMax; mobile radio; peer-to-peer computing; protocols; telecommunication traffic; BitTorrent traffic measurement; Ethernet; mobile Internet environments; mobile WiMAX networks; wired host; Ethernet networks; Measurement; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Peer to peer computing; Throughput; WiMAX;

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.2010.5569997

Filename

5569997