TY - GEN
T1 - Inequity of sharing ratio enhancement in darknet
T2 - 14th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, HPCC-2012 - 9th IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems, ICESS-2012
AU - Chen, Xiaowei
AU - CHU, Xiaowen
AU - Jia, Adele L.
AU - Pouwelse, Johan A.
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2012 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Private BitTorrent community (PT), as known as "BitTorrent Darknet", has become a popular research spot in recent years. PTs can provide ultra-high download performance which is much better than public BitTorrent communities. The Sharing Ratio Enhancement (SRE) mechanism is the key to PTs' success. However, it also brings negative side effects to the registered users in PTs. In this paper, we crawl and analyze all of user profiles from three influential PTs which provide very detailed information. We show that the sharing ratio of members cannot represent their upload contribution in terms of upload time and amount. Members are forced to seed for a long time to maintain adequate sharing ratios to survive in the community. SRE mechanism's nature drawbacks induce inequity. Based on these measurements, we propose a unified two-track payment system to pay peers based on their contribution, which is an alternative mechanism to SRE. We consider the payment with inflation and transit process. Our systems can provide a fair and consistent environment, which is helpful to unify and to build sustainable development of private BitTorrent communities.
AB - Private BitTorrent community (PT), as known as "BitTorrent Darknet", has become a popular research spot in recent years. PTs can provide ultra-high download performance which is much better than public BitTorrent communities. The Sharing Ratio Enhancement (SRE) mechanism is the key to PTs' success. However, it also brings negative side effects to the registered users in PTs. In this paper, we crawl and analyze all of user profiles from three influential PTs which provide very detailed information. We show that the sharing ratio of members cannot represent their upload contribution in terms of upload time and amount. Members are forced to seed for a long time to maintain adequate sharing ratios to survive in the community. SRE mechanism's nature drawbacks induce inequity. Based on these measurements, we propose a unified two-track payment system to pay peers based on their contribution, which is an alternative mechanism to SRE. We consider the payment with inflation and transit process. Our systems can provide a fair and consistent environment, which is helpful to unify and to build sustainable development of private BitTorrent communities.
KW - BitTorrent
KW - content distribution
KW - peer-to-peer networks
KW - private tracker
KW - sustainability
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84870420440&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/HPCC.2012.111
DO - 10.1109/HPCC.2012.111
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84870420440
SN - 9780769547497
T3 - Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, HPCC-2012 - 9th IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems, ICESS-2012
SP - 786
EP - 793
BT - Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, HPCC-2012 - 9th IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems, ICESS-2012
Y2 - 25 June 2012 through 27 June 2012
ER -