Experimental plugin uses CDN info to proactively find nearby peers, leading to a better response time and significantly improved download speeds.
Everybody in the BitTorrent community is always looking for ways to improve their download speeds. From the general methods like proper configuration and port forwarding to the more dubious like BitTyrant for example, the practice of ensuring maximum download speeds is an ongoing one.
So it’s very interesting to learn that two researchers at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science have discovered a new way to increase BitTorrent transfer speeds. Fabián E. Bustamante, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and Ph.D. student David Choffnes, together developed Ono – a plugin for the Azureus BitTorrent client.
“Finding nearby computers for transferring data may seem like a simple thing to do,” says Choffnes, “but the problem is that the Internet doesn’t have a Google Map. Every computer may have an address, but it doesn’t tell you whether the machine is close to you.”
Ono – Hawaiian for “delicious” – proactively finds and connects to peers that are closest to you. This leads to a better response time and significantly improved download speeds according to their reports.
“We identify those peers that are near you by reusing network measurements from content distribution networks (CDNs), i.e. without performing extensive path measurement or probing,” they write.
They continue:
So does this work? In a word, yes. Using results collected from our participating users (well over 100,000 of them!), we have found that our system locates peers along paths that have two orders of magnitude lower latency and 30% lower loss rates than those picked at random by BitTorrent, and that these high-quality paths can lead to significant improvements in transfer rates. In challenged settings where peers are overloaded in terms of available bandwidth, Ono provides a 31% average download-rate improvement; in environments with large available bandwidth, Ono increases download rates by 207% on average (and improves median rates by 883%).
I think the real selling point for the plugin is there in the last line,”…improves median rates by 883%!”
It’s reported to have some 149,296 users as of this moment, with surely more to come. Bustamante is eager to see more users download and install the plugin.
“The more users we have, the better the system works, so we’re just trying make it easy to spread,” he says.
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OH NO!
(i might have to drop Utorrent for ono)
Not good if you use private trackers. They don’t allow things like this.
Why do private trackers block this type of program? Does this program help on the upload side at all? I guess it wouldn’t.
I dont see why they’d block it it doesn’t cheat anybody like BitTyrant all it does is find peers that are closest to you and gives them priority.
I’ve known some of the private BitTorrent site operators and even the slightest reason – even if it doesn’t really make sense some will just ban clients. I’ve heard some sites are reduced down to only using an old version of uTorrent.
In regards to private trackers this will be banned because of its IP usage. In order to find closer clients it needs to become more specific as to your personal location which breaches many issues with the security of private networks. Networks that like to be as safe and anonymous as possible.
Check out your peer list in utorrent sometime. I don’t see how using something that is readily available compromises security. I don’t think there is any client that doesn’t let you view the IPs of connected peers.
yeah its good until the MP** and all the other pricks that harrass people for dloading start trying to hunt you down then ono becomes Oh No!
I can’t see a program that operates in this fashion personally being a seucirty threat in terms of keeping anti-piracy organizations out of your connection (unless the client has an enabled feature that decentralizes the swarm – ala DHT) the reason it’s not a threat to peers is because this threat existed since the protocol has been brought into existence in the first place. You can see IP addresses of everyone in the swarm. Private trackers are even worse because most would ban proxies for security reasons (only exception even remotely like this would be seedboxes which I suppose you could argue acts like a proxy if you can download with it too). Organize everyone by IP address and you’re already doing half the work of what this client can do.
If you expect privacy from P2P one of the last things you want to do is use BitTorrent and go strictly to private sites.