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"The Bittorrent protocol designed by Bram Cohen works great and currently dominates the traffic on the Internet backbone, but it lacks many features that may be very useful. We are improving this protocol with over a dozen people with such features which go way beyond the original. We are extending the code from the ABC project. Features that we are adding include: | "The Bittorrent protocol designed by Bram Cohen works great and currently dominates the traffic on the Internet backbone, but it lacks many features that may be very useful. We are improving this protocol with over a dozen people with such features which go way beyond the original. We are extending the code from the ABC project. Features that we are adding include: | ||
Revision as of 12:39, 23 August 2006
Tribler = improved distribution mechanism for video files based on P2P-principles
URL = http://www.tribler.org/index2.php?layer0=1
Description
From Tribler:
"The Bittorrent protocol designed by Bram Cohen works great and currently dominates the traffic on the Internet backbone, but it lacks many features that may be very useful. We are improving this protocol with over a dozen people with such features which go way beyond the original. We are extending the code from the ABC project. Features that we are adding include:
- Amazon-like recommendations to get interesting files
- Doubling the download speed by using the upload capacity of friends
- Real-time P2P file sharing with P2P video streaming
- Showing the locations of other downloaders of the same content with city-level accuracy on a world map"
From the e-We blog at
http://thothzone.blogspot.com/2006/07/p2p-buzz-to-biz.html
"In asymmetric Internet access scenarios, BitTorrent users are at a disadvantage due to the protocol’s strategy to limit the effective download bandwidth to upload link capacity. Tribler is a new cooperative downloading protocol that makes use of social groups to improve download performance. Peers from a social group that decide to participate in a cooperative download take one of two roles: collectors or helpers. A collector is the peer that is interested in obtaining a complete copy of a particular file, and a helper is a peer that is recruited by a collector to assist in downloading that file. Both collector and helpers start downloading the file using the classical BitTorrent and cooperative download extensions. Before downloading, a helper asks the collector what chunk it should download. After downloading a file chunk, the helper sends the chunk to the collector without requesting anything in return. In addition to receiving file chunks from its helpers, the collector also optimizes its download performance by dynamically selecting the best available data source from the set of helpers and other peers in the BitTorrent network. The Tribler system has been recently used to distribute Television programs on the internet. Such distribution is carried out at relatively no cost and it helps in establishing a more direct link between the program makers and viewers." (http://thothzone.blogspot.com/2006/07/p2p-buzz-to-biz.html)