Research Article

TRIBLER: a social-based peer-to-peer system

  1. J. A. Pouwelse1,
  2. P. Garbacki1,
  3. J. Wang1,
  4. A. Bakker2,
  5. J. Yang1,
  6. A. Iosup1,
  7. D. H. J. Epema1,*,
  8. M. Reinders1,
  9. M. R. van Steen2,
  10. H. J. Sips1

Article first published online: 1 MAY 2007

DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1189

Issue

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Special Issue: Recent Advances in Peer-to-Peer Systems and Security (P2P 2006)

Volume 20, Issue 2, pages 127–138, February 2008

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Pouwelse, J. A., Garbacki, P., Wang, J., Bakker, A., Yang, J., Iosup, A., Epema, D. H. J., Reinders, M., van Steen, M. R. and Sips, H. J. (2008), TRIBLER: a social-based peer-to-peer system. Concurrency Computat.: Pract. Exper., 20: 127–138. doi: 10.1002/cpe.1189

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  1. 1

    Department of Computer Science, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

  2. 2

    Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands

*Department of Computer Science, Delft University of Technology, P.O. Box 5031, 2600 CD, Delft, The Netherlands

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 19 DEC 2007
  2. Article first published online: 1 MAY 2007
  3. Manuscript Accepted: 30 JAN 2007
  4. Manuscript Revised: 25 JAN 2007
  5. Manuscript Received: 24 SEP 2006

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Keywords:

  • peer-to-peer;
  • social-based;
  • taste buddies

Abstract

Most current peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing systems treat their users as anonymous, unrelated entities, and completely disregard any social relationships between them. However, social phenomena such as friendship and the existence of communities of users with similar tastes or interests may well be exploited in such systems in order to increase their usability and performance. In this paper we present a novel social-based P2P file-sharing paradigm that exploits social phenomena by maintaining social networks and using these in content discovery, content recommendation, and downloading. Based on this paradigm's main concepts such as taste buddies and friends, we have designed and implemented the TRIBLER P2P file-sharing system as a set of extensions to BitTorrent. We present and discuss the design of TRIBLER, and we show evidence that TRIBLER enables fast content discovery and recommendation at a low additional overhead, and a significant improvement in download performance. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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