A broadcast aware P2P mechanism for improving BitTorrent content delivery

Author

Markakis, Evangelos ; Skiannis, Charalampos ; Sideris, Anargiros ; Alexiou, George ; Palis, Evangelos

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. & Commun. Syst. Eng., Univ. of the Aegean, Samos, Greece

fYear

2014

fDate

1-3 Dec. 2014

Firstpage

229

Lastpage

233

Abstract

In this paper, we present how we could benefit from the transmitted data of a broadcast link in order to achieve optimized performance of P2P content distribution. In this context, the paper elaborates on a prototype broadcast-aware P2P mechanism (namely BAP2P) that assists content distribution among users located in different CMNs by minimising redundant traffic in the downlink stream, thus providing enhanced scalability and optimised performance. The mechanism is evaluated based on `Download Completion Time´ and the `Block exchanged´ over the DVB-T network and the results indicate the validity of the Mechanism presented.

Keywords

cellular radio; digital video broadcasting; multimedia communication; optimisation; telecommunication traffic; BAP2P; BitTorrent content delivery; CMN; DVB-T network; P2P content distribution; broadcast link; broadcast-aware P2P mechanism; cell main nodes; digital video broadcasting standard for terrestrial transmission; downlink stream; download completion time; peer-to-peer content distribution; Digital video broadcasting; Downlink; IP networks; Peer-to-peer computing; Scalability; Uplink; BitTorrent; Caching; Network Performance; P2P; P2P cache;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD), 2014 IEEE 19th International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Athens

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CAMAD.2014.7033240

Filename

7033240