A novel approach to energy efficient content distribution with bittorrent

  • Authors:
  • Matthew Forshaw;Nigel Thomas

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK;School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

  • Venue:
  • EPEW'12 Proceedings of the 9th European conference on Computer Performance Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The energy efficiency aspects of IT infrastructure and communications systems are facing increased scrutiny, and a broad range of compelling financial, social, political and legislative factors is emerging. In this paper, energy efficiency considerations are addressed in the context of BitTorrent. We provide mechanisms to facilitate energy efficiency and energy proportionality, and propose an energy-efficient content distribution system employing these mechanisms to minimise energy consumption and reduce cost.