Poor man's broadband: peer-to-peer dialup networking

  • Authors:
  • Umar Saif;Ahsan Latif Chudhary;Shakeel Butt;Nabeel Farooq Butt

  • Affiliations:
  • LUMS, Computer Science;LUMS, Computer Science;LUMS, Computer Science;LUMS, Computer Science

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In this paper we present a peer-to-peer dialup architecture for accelerated "Internet access" in the developing world. Our proposed architecture provides a mechanism for multiplexing the scarce and expensive international Internet bandwidth over higher bandwidth p2p dialup connections within a developing country. Our system combines a number of architectural components, such as incentive-driven p2p data transfer, intelligent connection interleaving and content-prefetching. This paper presents a detailed design, implementation and evaluation of our dialup p2p data transfer architecture inspired by Bittorrent.