Distributed Content Dissemination with a Rank Function
Anna Kobusińska, Jerzy Brzeziński, Jakub Aftowicz, Grzegorz Grzelachowski · 2016
BitTorrent protocol is widely used for file sharing in peer-to-peer systems. Also, many cloud environments utilizethis protocol. Despite many advantages, among which are goodscalability and performance, BitTorrent has also limitations. Toamend them, this paper proposes TManTorrent protocol - adistributed BitTorrent protocol, which replaces a tracker serverwith a gossiping mechanism, and promotes most appropriatenodes to cooperate with, during exchange of a required content. The paper includes results of simulation experiments, which confirm the efficiency of the proposed TManTorrent protocol.