IEEE Internet Computing
Analyzing peer-to-peer traffic across large networks
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Internet measurment
Measuring and analyzing the characteristics of Napster and Gnutella hosts
Multimedia Systems
Transport layer identification of P2P traffic
Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
The internet measurement data catalog
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
CRAWDAD: a community resource for archiving wireless data at Dartmouth
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Correlating Topology and Path Characteristics of Overlay Networks and the Internet
CCGRID '06 Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
Measurements, analysis, and modeling of BitTorrent-like systems
IMC '05 Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet Measurement
Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
Resource demand and supply in BitTorrent content-sharing communities
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Monitoring the Bittorrent Monitors: A Bird's Eye View
PAM '09 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Passive and Active Network Measurement
On unbiased sampling for unstructured peer-to-peer networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Bunker: a privacy-oriented platform for network tracing
NSDI'09 Proceedings of the 6th USENIX symposium on Networked systems design and implementation
A comparison of approaches to large-scale data analysis
Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of data
Content availability and bundling in swarming systems
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Emerging networking experiments and technologies
Long term study of peer behavior in the KAD DHT
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Public and private BitTorrent communities: a measurement study
IPTPS'10 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Peer-to-peer systems
Do incentives build robustness in bit torrent
NSDI'07 Proceedings of the 4th USENIX conference on Networked systems design & implementation
The bittorrent p2p file-sharing system: measurements and analysis
IPTPS'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Peer-to-Peer Systems
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Today, the BitTorrent Peer-to-Peer file-sharing network is one of the largest Internet applications---it generates massive traffic volumes, it is deployed in thousands of independent communities, and it serves millions of unique users worldwide. Despite a large number of empirical and theoretical studies, observing the state of the global BitTorrent network remains a grand challenge for the BitTorrent community. To address this challenge, in this work we introduce BT-World, an architecture for observing the global BitTorrent network without help from the ISPs. We design BTWorld around three main features specific to BitTorrent measurements. First, our architecture is able to find public trackers, that is, the BitTorrent components that offer unrestricted service to peers around the world. Second, by observing the state of these trackers, BTWorld obtains information about the performance, scalability, and reliability of BitTorrent. Third, BTWorld is designed to pre-process the large volumes of recorded data for later analysis. We demonstrate the viability of our architecture by deploying it in practice, to observe and analyze one week of operation of a large part of the global BitTorrent network--over 10 million swarms and tens of millions of concurrent users. We also show that BT-World can shed light on BitTorrent phenomena, such as the presence of spam trackers and giant swarms.