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Access control to BitTorrent swarms using closed swarms

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Njål T. Borch,

Dusan GabrijelcicAuthors Info & Claims

AVSTP2P '10: Proceedings of the 2010 ACM workshop on Advanced video streaming techniques for peer-to-peer networks and social networking

Pages 25 - 30

https://doi.org/10.1145/1877891.1877898

Published: 29 October 2010 Publication History

Abstract

Peer-to-peer (P2P) technology potentially offers a promising basis for efficient, scalable and low-cost delivery of live content to large numbers of simultaneous users. However, the decentralized nature of P2P and the existence of untrusted peers makes commercial exploitation difficult. In this paper we describe Closed Swarms (CS), a P2P based content delivery system based on the BitTorrent protocols which makes it possible to differentiate between authorized and non-authorized nodes (or peers) within an overlay network. We show how Closed Swarms can be utilised as an access control mechanism to create a high quality content distribution network which provides legitimate users with an improved service over non-authorised users and which we believe may be used to drive the commercial adoption of P2P content distribution

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Petrocco RCapotă MPouwelse JEpema DCho YShin SKim SHung CHong J(2014)Hiding user content interest while preserving P2P performanceProceedings of the 29th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing10.1145/2554850.2555006(501-508)Online publication date: 24-Mar-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2554850.2555006
Bader FRadoveneanu ARagab-Hassen H(2011)A New Security Architecture for BitTorrentProceedings of the 2011IEEE 10th International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications10.1109/TrustCom.2011.58(451-455)Online publication date: 16-Nov-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/TrustCom.2011.58

Index Terms

Access control to BitTorrent swarms using closed swarms
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Computer vision
2. Information systems
  1. World Wide Web
    1. Web applications
      1. Internet communications tools

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AVSTP2P '10: Proceedings of the 2010 ACM workshop on Advanced video streaming techniques for peer-to-peer networks and social networking

October 2010

98 pages

ISBN:9781450301695

DOI:10.1145/1877891

General Chairs:
Gabriella Olmo
Politecnico di Torino, Italy
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Christian Timmerer
Klagenfurt University, Austria
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Pascal Frossard
EPFL, Switzerland
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Keith Mitchell
University of Lancaster, UK

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Petrocco RCapotă MPouwelse JEpema DCho YShin SKim SHung CHong J(2014)Hiding user content interest while preserving P2P performanceProceedings of the 29th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing10.1145/2554850.2555006(501-508)Online publication date: 24-Mar-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2554850.2555006
Bader FRadoveneanu ARagab-Hassen H(2011)A New Security Architecture for BitTorrentProceedings of the 2011IEEE 10th International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications10.1109/TrustCom.2011.58(451-455)Online publication date: 16-Nov-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/TrustCom.2011.58

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