Trading seeder bandwidth for efficient content distribution in swarming system

Although BitTorrent scales well to support large peer populations, the non-uniform seeder distribution over swarms leads to suboptimal content distribution. In this paper, we propose SeederTrading enabling the over-seeded swarms to trade the seeder bandwidth with the under-seeded swarms to examine the potential improvement through trading seeder bandwidth across swarms. Simulation results show that the under-seeded swarms can improve the content download performance while retaining the performance of over-seeded swarms, which means the content distribution performance and efficiency are improved. We also show that the trading seeder bandwidth across swarms can be done within short time (i.e., 60 seconds in our simulation).