Experimental Analysis of Super-Seeding in BitTorrent

—With the popularity of BitTorrent, improving its performance has been an active research area. Super-seeding, a special upload policy for initial seeds, improves the efficiency in producing multiple seeds and reduces the uploading cost of the initial seeders. However, the overall benefit of super seeding remains a question. In this paper, we conduct an experimental study over the performance of super-seeding scheme of BitTornado. We attempt to answer the following questions: whether and how much super-seeding saves uploading cost, whether the download time of all peers is decreased by superseeding, and in which scenario super-seeding performs worse. With varying seed bandwidth and peer behavior, we analyze the overall download time and upload cost of super seeding scheme during random period tests over 250 widely distributed PlanetLab nodes. The results show that benefits of super-seeding depend highly on the upload bandwidth of the initial seeds and the behavior of individual peers...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: ICC
• Authors: Zhijia Chen, Yang Chen, Chuang Lin, Vaibhav Nivargi, Pei Cao
• Keywords: Communications, Download Time, ICC 2008, Initial Seeds, Super Seeding