NETPOPPS: A Network Provider Oriented Peer-to-Peer System

Abstract

Despite various hurdles, such as copyright issues, legality matters, and security concerns, the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) traffic still grows and appears somehow daunting for network providers. In fact, P2P networks lay over the Internet network, which is composed of tens of thousands smaller networks called Autonomous Systems (AS) and belonging to various administrative entities: network providers, universities, companies, etc. Bilateral connections between ASs are governed by business agreements negotiated between the corresponding administrative entities [1]: it is a financial matter. However, in P2P networks, routing tasks are distributed across all system peers in an autonomous and spontaneous way without taking the IP network into account. In this paper, we propose a novel scheme, called NETwork Provider Oriented Peer-to-Peer System (NETPOPPS), which allows an effective cooperation between P2P traffic and network providers' economic agreements. NETPOPPS also promises alleviated message latency and enhanced lookup time.