A motivate mechanism for large-scale P2P content delivery system

Due to the inefficient resource adjustment, the current P2P file sharing systems cannot achieve the balanced relationship between supply and demand over the resources. Especially after a popular content releasing, a burst of downloaders often can't find sufficient uploaders and their request may starve the upload capacity of server. Therefore the overall system QoS may be degraded. To tackle such issue, this paper proposes a download rate accelerate mechanism, called motivate mechanism. With it, the system can quickly find out the files becoming insufficient by monitoring the operating status of the files hourly. Then it promptly increases the number of copies of those files by using free rider nodes so that the whole system QoS is maintained and the system performance is improved. The experiment results on the practical operating system of Tencent demonstrated that the proposed mechanism increases the download rate, saves the traffic on the server and optimizes the system performance.