TITLE:
BISTRO: BitTorrent Based on Space-Time Trade-Off
AUTHORS:
Roanna Lun, Ye Zhu, Huirong Fu
KEYWORDS:
Peer-to-Peer Networking; BitTorrent
JOURNAL NAME:
Communications and Network,
Vol.5 No.3C,
October
9,
2013
ABSTRACT: Due to the content bundling and the dramatic increase of
content size, the download performance in peer-to-peer networks has become a
research focus again recently. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to
improve the download performance based on the classical space-time trade-off.
With the approach, a peer can speed up local downloads in peer-to-peer networks
by contributing a portion of local hard disks for the content distribution in
peer-to-peer networks. The contribution can bring performance improvement to
each peer following the approach and in the meantime improve the overall
content distribution performance in a peer-to-peer network. Based on the approach,
we propose BISTRO, a BitTorrent based on space-time trade-off. The
BISTRO is compatible with the vanilla BitTorrent. Our extensive experiments
show that BISTRO can significantly reduce the download time.