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Design and Implementation of a BitTorrent Tracker Overlay for Swarm Unification

Authors:
Calin-Andrei Burloiu
Razvan Deaconescu
Nicolae Tapus

Keywords: Peer-to-Peer, BitTorrent, tracker, unification, TSUP, swarm

Abstract:
The deployment of the BitTorrent protocol in the early 2000s has meant a significant shift in Peer-to-Peer technologies. Currently the most heavily used protocol in the Internet core, the BitTorrent protocol has sparked numerous implementations, commercial entities and research interest. In this paper, we present a mechanism that allows integration of disparate swarms that share the same content. We've designed and implemented a novel inter-tracker protocol, dubbed TSUP, that allows trackers to share peer information, distribute it to clients and enable swarm unification. The protocol forms the basis for putting together small swarms into large, healthy ones with reduced performance overhead. Our work achieves its goals to increase the number of peers in a swarm and proves that the TSUP incurred overhead is minimal.

Pages: 217 to 222

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: May 22, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4006

ISBN: 978-1-61208-133-5

Location: Venice/Mestre, Italy

Dates: from May 22, 2011 to May 27, 2011