Tribler: A social-based peer-to-peer system (PDF, 6 pp., February 2008)

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"Most current P2P file sharing systems treat their users as anonymous,
unrelated entities, and completely disregard any social relationships
between them. However, social phenomena such as
friendship and the existence of communities of users with similar
tastesmay bewell exploited in such systems, to increase their usability
and performance. In this paper we present a novel socialbased
P2P filesharing paradigm that exploits social phenomena by maintaining
social networks and using these in content discovery, content
recommendation, and downloading. Based on this paradigm’s
first class concepts such as taste groups, friends, and friendsoffriends,
we have designed and implemented the TRIBLER P2P filesharing
system as a set of extensions to Bittorrent. We present
and discuss the design of TRIBLER, and we show evidence that
TRIBLER enables fast, trusted content discovery and recommendation
at a low additional overhead, and a significant improvement in
download performance."