Poor man's broadband
Umar Saif, Ahsan Latif Chudhary, Shakeel Butt, Nabeel Farooq Butt · ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review · 2007
In this paper we present a peer-to-peer dialup architecture for accelerated "Internet access" in the developing world. Our proposed architecture provides a mechanism for multiplexing the scarce and expensive international Internet bandwidth over higher bandwidth p2p dialup connections within a developing country. Our system combines a number of architectural components, such as incentive-driven p2p data transfer, intelligent connection interleaving and content-prefetching. This paper presents a detailed design, implementation and evaluation of our dialup p2p data transfer architecture inspired by Bittorrent.