On the Performance Evaluation and Analysis of the Hybridised Bittorrent Protocol with Partial Mobility Characteristics

TL;DR

This paper introduces a hybridized Bittorrent protocol model that accounts for partial mobility, aiming to improve throughput and performance in mobile peer-to-peer file sharing environments.

Contribution

It proposes a novel hybrid model incorporating partial mobility characteristics into Bittorrent, enhancing network performance in mobile scenarios.

Findings

Improved average throughput in mobile peer clusters.

Enhanced system performance with mobility-aware techniques.

Simulation results confirm effectiveness of the proposed model.

Abstract

Engaging mobility with file sharing is considered very promising in today's run Anywhere, Anytime, Anything (3As) environments. The Bittorrent file sharing protocol can be rarely combined with the mobility scenario framework since resources are not available due to the dynamically changing topology network. As a result, mobility in P2P-oriented file sharing platforms, degrades the end-to-end efficiency and the system's performance. This work proposes a new hybridized model, which takes into account the mobility characteristics of the combined Bittorrent protocol in a centralized manner enabling partial mobility characteristics, where the clients of the network use a distinct technique to differentiate between mobile and static nodes. Many parameters were taken into consideration like the round trip delays, the diffusion process, and the seeding techniques, targeting the maximization of the average throughput in the clustered swarms containing mobile peers. Partial mobility characteristics are set in a peer-tracker and peer-peer communication enhancement schema with partial mobility, allowing an optimistic approach to attain high availability and throughput response as simulation results show.