Paper Info
Title
An analysis of BitTorrent cross-swarm peer participation and geolocational distribution
Abstract
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file-sharing is becoming increasingly popular in recent years. In 2012, it was reported that P2P traffic consumed over 5,374 petabytes per month, which accounted for approximately 20.5% of consumer internet traffic. TV is the popular content type on The Pirate Bay (the world's largest BitTorrent indexing website). In this paper, an analysis of the swarms of the most popular pirated TV shows is conducted. The purpose of this data gathering exercise is to enumerate the peer distribution at different geolocational levels, to measure the temporal trend of the swarm and to discover the amount of cross-swarm peer participation. Snapshots containing peer related information involved in the unauthorised distribution of this content were collected at a high frequency resulting in a more accurate landscape of the total involvement. The volume of data collected throughout the monitoring of the network exceeded 2 terabytes. The presented analysis and the results presented can aid in network usage prediction, bandwidth provisioning and future network design.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/ICCCN.2014.6911846
Computer Communication and Networks
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Internet,authorisation,peer-to-peer computing,telecommunication traffic,BitTorrent cross-swarm peer participation,BitTorrent indexing website,P2P file-sharing,P2P traffic,Pirate Bay,bandwidth provisioning,consumer Internet traffic,geolocational distribution,geolocational level,network design,network usage prediction,peer distribution,peer related information,peer-to-peer file sharing,pirated TV show,unauthorised distribution
Journal
abs/1409.8171
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
3
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mark Scanlon12310.74
Huijie Shen200.34