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The Distance-Availability Weighted Piece Selection Method for BitTorrent: A BitTorrent Piece Selection Method for On-Demand Streaming

Petter Sandvik, Mats Neovius, The Distance-Availability Weighted Piece Selection Method for BitTorrent: A BitTorrent Piece Selection Method for On-Demand Streaming. In: Antonio Liotta, Nick Antonopoulos, George Exarchakos, Takahiro Hara (Eds.), Proceedings of The First International Conference on Advances in P2P Systems (AP2PS 2009), 198–202, IEEE Computer Society, 2009.

Abstract:

During the last few years, BitTorrent has become a popular way of transferring large files
over the Internet. However, the original out-of-order nature of the BitTorrent protocol has
made it difficult to enable playback of media files which have not yet been fully transferred. In
this paper we propose a new BitTorrent piece selection method to enable simultaneous
playback of the transferred media file without impacting on the speed and quality of the
transfer. Unlike the original rarest-first piece selection method, the distance-availability
weighted method compromises between selecting rare pieces and pieces which are soon to
be played back, making playback possible before the transfer is complete.

BibTeX entry:

@INPROCEEDINGS{inpSaNe09a,
  title = {The Distance-Availability Weighted Piece Selection Method for BitTorrent: A BitTorrent Piece Selection Method for On-Demand Streaming},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of The First International Conference on Advances in P2P Systems (AP2PS 2009)},
  author = {Sandvik, Petter and Neovius, Mats},
  editor = {Liotta, Antonio and Antonopoulos, Nick and Exarchakos, George and Hara, Takahiro},
  publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
  pages = {198–202},
  year = {2009},
  keywords = {media streaming, on-demand streaming, peer-to-peer networks, network protocols},
}

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