Application Layer Traffic Optimization in the eMule System

Application Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) tends to reduce cross-network traffic that P2P software generates via guiding peers to connect to near sources and download from them when there are many sources available in network. The previous researches about ALTO were mostly carried on BitTorrent....

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Hauptverfasser:	Lijie Sheng, Jianfeng Song, Xuewen Dong, Kun Xie
Format:	Tagungsbericht
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	ALTO Application software Computer science eMule Internet telephony IP networks P2P Peer to peer computing Streaming media Telecommunication traffic Traffic control Watches Web and internet services
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Zusammenfassung:	Application Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) tends to reduce cross-network traffic that P2P software generates via guiding peers to connect to near sources and download from them when there are many sources available in network. The previous researches about ALTO were mostly carried on BitTorrent. The famous and popular P2P software, eMule, was neglected in ALTO studies. EMule is quite different from BitTorrent in various aspects. In this paper, we study how to integrate ALTO mechanism into the eMule system. Three methods are proposed, and one of them is studied in detail with simulation experiments. Experiment results show that the ALTO mechanism can decrease average download time and cross-network traffic at the same time. The drawback of the mechanism is also discovered, i.e., it introduces unfairness in download time for peers far away from the seed.
DOI:	10.1109/ICIW.2010.39