A study of pollution on BitTorrent

Author

Kong, Jie ; Cai, Wandong ; Wang, Lei ; Zhao, Qiushi

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Northwestern Polytech. Univ., Xi´´an, China

Volume

3

fYear

2010

fDate

26-28 Feb. 2010

Firstpage

118

Lastpage

122

Abstract

P2P pollution technology has been used to control the unauthorized distribution of the copyrighted files in recent years. In this paper, two 2 kinds of P2P pollution, the index poisoning and the fake-block-attack, has been discussed. The experiment result of applying them to BitTorrent shows that the effect of controlling file distribution is not satisfactory under some conditions. In order to improve the effect and the applicability of the pollution, an approach which combines the characteristics of the index poisoning and the fake-blockattack is proposed. The evaluation of applying this approach on BitTorrent shows that the robustness of the BitTorrent swarm is damaged and most peers can not complete the downloading even though the attack is not distributed to every downloading peer evenly. The effect of this approach is better than the effect of the index poisoning and the fake-block-attack.

Keywords

copyright; peer-to-peer computing; BitTorrent swarm; P2P pollution technology; copyrighted files; fake-block attack; fake-block-attack; file distribution; index poisoning; unauthorized distribution; Bandwidth; Computer science; Control systems; Europe; Internet; Large-scale systems; Peer to peer computing; Pollution; Robustness; TV; BitTorrent; P2P Pollution; evaluation; fake-block-attack; index poisoning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer and Automation Engineering (ICCAE), 2010 The 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5585-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5586-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCAE.2010.5452055

Filename

5452055