Title: An efficient content sharing scheme using file splitting and differences between versions in hybrid peer-to-peer networks

Authors: Toshinobu Hayashi; Shinji Sugawara

Addresses: Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokisocho Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan ' Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chiba Institute of Technology, 2-17-1 Tsudanuma, Narashino 275-0016, Japan

Abstract: This paper proposes an efficient content sharing strategy using file splitting and difference between versions in hybrid Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks. In this strategy, when a user requests a content item, he/she can get it from the network by retrieving the other version of the content item and the difference from the requested version, if the obtaining cost of the requested version is expensive. This way of content sharing can be expected to accomplish effective and flexible operation. Furthermore, efficient utilisation of a peer's storage capacity is achieved by splitting each replica of a content item into several small blocks and storing them separately in the plural peers.

Keywords: content sharing; file splitting; difference of versions; hybrid peer-to-peer.

DOI: 10.1504/IJGUC.2019.102012

International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, 2019 Vol.10 No.5, pp.564 - 573

Received: 15 Jun 2018
Accepted: 26 Oct 2018
Published online: 03 Sep 2019 *

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