Design and evaluation of a BitTorrent proxy for energy saving

Anastasi, Giuseppe; Conti, Marco; Giannetti, Ilaria; Passarella, Andrea

doi:10.1109/iscc.2009.5202284

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“…The main proxy-based solutions proposed in the literature are listed in Table 1 and will be discussed in the following subsections. SIP Catcher [24] Proxy for Gnutella [26] EE-BitTorrent [27], [28], [29] Network Connectivity Proxy Concept, design and implementation [33], [34], [35], [8], [36], [37], [38], [7] Somniloquy [39] SleepServer [40] ECMA-393 [41]…”

Section: -1 Power Management Proxy Operation Scheme]mentioning

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Energy‐Efficient Protocol Design

Samdanis

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Maeder

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Green Communications

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Recent studies have shown that the total energy consumed by the Internet has followed an increasing trend over the years. A considerable part of this energy is wasted due to an inefficient utilization of edge devices, i.e., Personal Computers (PCs) and other user equipment in homes and offices. PCs are often left on even when they are not used (e.g., overnight or during weekends), while other edge devices, such as printers, IP phones, and displays, are typically kept always on, especially in public buildings. A number of solutions have been proposed for eliminating, or reducing, energy wastes due to edge devices. In this chapter we propose a general taxonomy for their classification. Then, according to the introduced taxonomy, we survey the main proposals appeared in the literature. Finally, we highlight some open issues.

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Section: -1 Power Management Proxy Operation Scheme]mentioning

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Energy‐Efficient Protocol Design

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“…The solution proposed in this paper was originally presented in [22]. In this paper we have measured in greater detail the time required to download files at the proxy, considering also maximum transfer times (instead of average values only) in case of parallel downloads.…”

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A BitTorrent proxy for Green Internet file sharing: Design and experimental evaluation

Anastasi

Giannetti

Passarella

2010

Computer Communications

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Abstract. Recent studies have shown that the Internet-related energy consumption represents a significant, and increasing, part of the overall energy consumption of our society. Therefore, it is extremely important to look for energy-efficient Internet applications and protocols. The largest contribution to this energy consumption is due to Internet edge devices (PCs and data centers). As a particularly significant example, in this paper we address the fact that users leave their PCs continuously powered on for satisfying connectivity requirements of Peer-toPeer (P2P) file sharing applications, like BitTorrent (currently the most popular P2P Internet platform). To reduce these energy consumptions, without penalizing the Quality of Service of BitTorrent users, in this paper we propose a novel architecture based on the introduction of a BitTorrent proxy. BitTorrent users delegate the download operations to the proxy and, then, power off their PC, while the proxy downloads the requested files. We implemented our solution and validated it in a realistic testbed. Experimental results show that, with respect to the legacy BitTorrent approach, our solution is very effective in reducing the energy consumption without introducing any QoS degradation. Specifically, our results show that the proxy-based solution can provide up to 95% reduction in the energy consumption and, at the same time, a significant reduction in the average file download time.

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