NDLI: BitTorrent Locality and Transit TrafficReduction: When, Why, and at What Cost?

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Cuevas, R. Laoutaris, N. Xiaoyuan Yang Siganos, G. Rodriguez, P.
Copyright Year	1990
Abstract	A substantial amount of work has recently gone into localizing BitTorrent traffic within an ISP in order to avoid excessive and often times unnecessary transit costs. Several architectures and systems have been proposed and the initial results from specific ISPs and a few torrents have been encouraging. In this work we attempt to deepen and scale our understanding of locality and its potential. Looking at specific ISPs, we consider tens of thousands of concurrent torrents, and thus capture ISP-wide implications that cannot be appreciated by looking at only a handful of torrents. Second, we go beyond individual case studies and present results for few thousands ISPs represented in our data set of up to 40K torrents involving more than 3.9M concurrent peers and more than 20M in the course of a day spread in 11K ASes. Finally, we develop scalable methodologies that allow us to process this huge data set and derive accurate traffic matrices of torrents. Using the previous methods we obtain the following main findings: i) Although there are a large number of very small ISPs without enough resources for localizing traffic, by analyzing the 100 largest ISPs we show that Locality policies are expected to significantly reduce the transit traffic with respect to the default random overlay construction method in these ISPs; ii) contrary to the popular belief, increasing the access speed of the clients of an ISP does not necessarily help to localize more traffic; iii) by studying several real ISPs, we have shown that soft speed-aware locality policies guarantee win-win situations for ISPs and end users. Furthermore, the maximum transit traffic savings that an ISP can achieve without limiting the number of inter-ISP overlay links is bounded by “unlocalizable” torrents with few local clients. The application of restrictions in the number of inter-ISP links leads to a higher transit traffic reduction but the QoS of clients downloading “unlocalizable” torrents would be severely harmed.
Sponsorship	IEEE Computer Society
Starting Page	1177
Ending Page	1189
Page Count	13
File Size	1629051
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10459219
Volume Number	25
Issue Number	5
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2014-01-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Peer-to-peer computing Quality of service Protocols Europe Crawlers IP networks Sociology measurements P2P BitTorrent locality
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Signal Processing Computational Theory and Mathematics Hardware and Architecture

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