Inequity of sharing ratio enhancement in darknet: Measurement and improvement

Xiaowei Chen*, Xiaowen CHU, Adele L. Jia, Johan A. Pouwelse

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings 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
Pages786-793
Number of pages8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Event14th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, HPCC-2012 - 9th IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems, ICESS-2012 - Liverpool, United Kingdom
Duration: 25 Jun 201227 Jun 2012
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/6331801/proceeding

Publication series

NameProceedings 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

Conference

Conference14th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, HPCC-2012 - 9th IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems, ICESS-2012
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityLiverpool
Period25/06/1227/06/12
Internet address

Scopus Subject Areas

  • Software

User-Defined Keywords

  • BitTorrent
  • content distribution
  • peer-to-peer networks
  • private tracker
  • sustainability

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