A Cross-layer Decentralized BitTorrent for Mobile Ad hoc Networks

@inproceedings{citeulike:2750205, abstract = {In recent years, a number of P2P systems, for instance, Gnutella, KaZaA, Napster, and BitTorrent, have been proposed for the wired Internet. However, these protocols are not immediately applicable to the mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) owing to the extreme conditions MANETs operate under. Of the above protocols, although BitTorrent has several features which make it an ideal candidate for adapting to MANETs, the current specification of BitTorrent has several drawbacks which make a straightforward implementation of BitTorrent for MANETs an undesirable solution. In this paper, we investigate a straightforward implementation of BitTorrent in MANETs, termed BTI, and compare its performance with a cross-layer adaptation of BitTorrent for MANETs, termed BTM. We resolve the issues of centralized control and single point of failure in BTI by proposing mechanisms to decentralize the BitTorrent model for MANETs and provide resource/data redundancy to improve the protocol performance. In addition, the cross-layer model of BTM is more suited for use in a MANET. Our performance comparison studies show that BTM is able to outperform BTI in terms of goodput, and the number of pieces delivered, in the context of amortizing the client download expenses over more connections (that is, BTM has a higher average peer degree)}, author = {Rajagopalan, Sundaram and Shen, Chien-Chung }, booktitle = {Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems - Workshops, 2006. 3rd Annual International Conference on}, citeulike-article-id = {2750205}, doi = {10.1109/MOBIQW.2006.361732}, journal = {Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems - Workshops, 2006. 3rd Annual International Conference on}, keywords = {bittorrent, content, cross-layer, distribution, mobile, optimization, sharing}, pages = {1--10}, posted-at = {2008-05-03 20:55:27}, priority = {2}, title = {A Cross-layer Decentralized BitTorrent for Mobile Ad hoc Networks}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MOBIQW.2006.361732}, year = {2006} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:2750205 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2750205 TI - A Cross-layer Decentralized BitTorrent for Mobile Ad hoc Networks T2 - Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems - Workshops, 2006. 3rd Annual International Conference on JF - Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems - Workshops, 2006. 3rd Annual International Conference on SP - 1 EP - 10 N2 - In recent years, a number of P2P systems, for instance, Gnutella, KaZaA, Napster, and BitTorrent, have been proposed for the wired Internet. However, these protocols are not immediately applicable to the mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) owing to the extreme conditions MANETs operate under. Of the above protocols, although BitTorrent has several features which make it an ideal candidate for adapting to MANETs, the current specification of BitTorrent has several drawbacks which make a straightforward implementation of BitTorrent for MANETs an undesirable solution. In this paper, we investigate a straightforward implementation of BitTorrent in MANETs, termed BTI, and compare its performance with a cross-layer adaptation of BitTorrent for MANETs, termed BTM. We resolve the issues of centralized control and single point of failure in BTI by proposing mechanisms to decentralize the BitTorrent model for MANETs and provide resource/data redundancy to improve the protocol performance. In addition, the cross-layer model of BTM is more suited for use in a MANET. Our performance comparison studies show that BTM is able to outperform BTI in terms of goodput, and the number of pieces delivered, in the context of amortizing the client download expenses over more connections (that is, BTM has a higher average peer degree) KW - bittorrent KW - content KW - cross-layer KW - distribution KW - mobile KW - optimization KW - sharing AU - Rajagopalan, Sundaram AU - Shen, Chien-Chung PY - 2006/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MOBIQW.2006.361732 ER -