BatTorrent: A Battery-Aware BitTorrent for Mobile Devices
Zach King, Jeremy Blackburn, Adriana Iamnitchi · 2009
BitTorrent has been shown to be an effective and energy-efficient means to distribute digital content. Typically, however, BitTorrent swarms are composed of immobile peers (i.e., desktop computers) with no concerns for loss of power. In the mobile realm this concern becomes a reality. Due to the upload-in-orderto-download nature of the tit-for-tat mechanism, mobile devices must consume battery life to remain viable members of the swarm. We propose a novel solution which takes into account the variability of available battery life in a mobile BitTorrent swarm and attempts to minimize the strain on low battery clients while retaining the benefits of “download in parallel” BitTorrent provides.