DHT-based traffic localization in the wild

Author

Varvello, Matteo ; Steiner, Matthias

Author_Institution

Bell Labs., Alcatel-Lucent, Holmdel, NJ, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

14-19 April 2013

Firstpage

3141

Lastpage

3146

Abstract

BitTorrent is both the dominant Peer-to-Peer (P2P) protocol for file-sharing and a nightmare for ISPs due to its network agnostic nature. Many solutions exist to localize BitTorrent traffic relying on cooperation between ISPs and the trackers. Recently, BitTorrent users have been abandoning the trackers in favor of Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs). Despite DHTs are complex heterogeneous systems, DHT-based traffic localization is also possible; however, it is unclear how it performs. The goal of this work is to measure DHT-based traffic localization in the wild. We run multiple experiments involving up to five commercial ISPs and a maximum duration of one month, collecting about 400 GB of BitTorrent traffic. Then, we perform an extensive analysis with the following goals: understand the impact of system parameters, verify accuracy of the measurements, estimate the localization benefits.

Keywords

cryptography; peer-to-peer computing; protocols; telecommunication traffic; BitTorrent traffic localization; DHT-based traffic localization; ISP; P2P protocol; distributed hash table; file-sharing; heterogeneous system; localization benefit estimation; network agnostic nature; peer-to-peer protocol; Accuracy; Instruments; Internet; Linux; Peer-to-peer computing; Protocols; Radio access networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

INFOCOM, 2013 Proceedings IEEE

Conference_Location

Turin

ISSN

0743-166X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5944-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INFCOM.2013.6567128

Filename

6567128