SatTorrent - Satellite-Aided P2P Content Distribution for Virtual Environments

Bernd Klasen

Sixth International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques

Research Article

SatTorrent - Satellite-Aided P2P Content Distribution for Virtual Environments

Cite: BibTeX Plain Text

@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.simutools.2013.252047,
    author={Bernd Klasen},
    title={SatTorrent - Satellite-Aided P2P Content Distribution for Virtual Environments},
    proceedings={Sixth International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques},
    publisher={ICST},
    proceedings_a={SIMUTOOLS},
    year={2013},
    month={7},
    keywords={content distribution peer-to-peer protocols sattorrent},
    doi={10.4108/icst.simutools.2013.252047}
}

Bernd Klasen
Year: 2013
SatTorrent - Satellite-Aided P2P Content Distribution for Virtual Environments
SIMUTOOLS
ACM
DOI: 10.4108/icst.simutools.2013.252047

Bernd Klasen¹^,*

1: SES ASTRA TechCom

*Contact email: research@berndklasen.de

Abstract

Distributed virtual environments and their most prominent representative massive multiplayer online games enjoy a high and still growing popularity. The distribution of client updates is a challenging task already and will become much worse when users are allowed to apply extensive changes respectively additions to the virtual world by means of user generated content. This paper presents a satellite based peer-to-peer approach that is able to reduce the download duration, server load, overall traffic and thus the costs involved with the content distribution. In order to achieve this, SatTorrent - a modification of the BitTorrent protocol - has been developed which is presented and evaluated in this paper.

Keywords: content distribution peer-to-peer protocols sattorrent

Published: 2013-07-17
Publisher: ICST

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/icst.simutools.2013.252047