Towards efficient data distribution on computational desktop grids with BitTorrent

Future Generation Computer Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 983-989

  Wei, Baohua ^a   Fedak, Gilles ^a   Cappello, Franck ^a  

^a Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique   (France)

Author keywords

BitTorrent; Collaborative content distribution; Desktop grid

Indexed keywords

BITTORRENT; COLLABORATIVE CONTENT DISTRIBUTION; DESKTOP GRID;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INTERNET; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SERVERS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 34447325901     PISSN: 0167739X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2007.04.006     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Anderson D., Bowyer S., Cobb J., Gedye D., Sullivan W.T., and Werthimer D. Astronomical and Biochemical Origins and the Search for Life in the Universe (Proc. of the Fifth Intl. Conf. on Bioastronomy) (1997)
2. Distributed.net, RSA Labs' 64bit RC5 Encryption Challenge
3. D. Anderson, BOINC: A system for public-resource computing and storage, in: Proceedings of the 5th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing, Pittsburgh, USA, 2004
4. F. Cappello, S. Djilali, G. Fedak, F.M. Thomas Hérault, V. Néri, O. Lodygensky, Computing on large scale distributed systems: XtremWeb architecture, programming models, security, tests and convergence with grid, Future Generation Comput. Sci
5. N. Andrade, W. Cirne, F. Brasileiro, P. Roisenberg, OurGrid: An approach to easily assemble grids with equitable resource sharing, in: Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing, 2003
6. Chien A., Calder B., Elbert S., and Bhatia K. Entropia: Architecture and performance of an enterprise Desktop Grid system. J. Parallel Distrib. Comput. 63 5 (2003) 597-610
7. Gentzsch W. Sun Grid Engine (SGE): A Cluster Resource Manager (2002)
8. B. Cohen, Incentives build robustness in BitTorrent, in: Workshop on Economics of Peer-to-Peer Systems, Berkeley, CA, USA, 2003
9. R. Sherwood, R. Braud, B. Bhattacharjee, Slurpie: A cooperative bulk data transfer protocol, in: Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, 2004
10. J.W. Byers, M. Luby, M. Mitzenmacher, A. Rege, A digital-fountain approach to reliable distribution of bulk data, in: Proc. of the ACL SIGCOMM, 1998
11. EDonkey, Edonkey, overnet homepage. http://www.edonkey200.com/, January 2002
12. FastTrack, P2P Technology. KaZaA Media Desktop. http://www.fasttrack.nu/, January 2002
13. CAIDA, CAIDA, the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis: Top applications (bytes) for subinterface 0[0]: SD-NAP traffic, 2002
14. Qiu D., and Srikant R. Modeling and performance analysis of BitTorrent-like peer-to-peer networks. SIGCOMM Comput. Commun. Rev. 34 4 (2004) 367-378
15. C. Gkantsidis, P. Rodriguez, Network coding for large scale content distribution, in: Proceedings of IEEE/INFOCOM 2005, Miami, USA, 2005
16. M. Izal, G. Urvoy-Keller, E.W. Biersack, P.A. Felber, A.A. Hamra, L. Garces-Erice, Dissecting BitTorrent: Five months in a Torrent's lifetime, in: Proceedings of Passive and Active Measurements, PAM, 2004
17. J.A. Pouwelse, P. Garbacki, D. Epema, H.J. Sips, A measurement study of the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file sharing system, Tech. Rep. PDS-2004-007, Delft University of Technology, 2004
18. B.N.L. Anthony Bellissimo, P. Shenoy, Exploring the use of BitTorrent as the basis for a large trace repository, Tech. Rep., University of Massachusetts, 2004
19. A.R. Bharambe, H. Cormac, V.N. Padmanabhan, Understanding and deconstructing BitTorrent performance, Tech. Rep., Microsoft Research, 2005
20. Litzkow M.J., Livny M., and Mutka M.W. Condor - A hunter of idle workstations. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, ICDCS (1988), IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC 104-111
21. D. Kondo, M. Taufer, C.L. Brooks, H. Casanova, A. Chien, Characterizing and evaluating Desktop Grids: An empirical study, in: IPDPS 2004, IEEE/ACM International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2004