@TechReport{XYS06,
  author =	 {Haiyong Xie and Yang Richard Yang and Avi
                  Silberschatz},
  title =	 {Towards {ISP}-Compliant, Peer-Friendly {P2P} Design},
  institution =	 {YaleCS},
  year =	 2006,
  month =	 Aug,
  abstract =	 {Peer-to-peer (P2P) applications are consuming a
                  significant fraction of the total bandwidth of
                  Internet service providers (ISPs). The increasing
                  P2P traffic is becoming a financial burden to the
                  ISPs and if not well addressed may lead ISPs to
                  block or put strict rate limits on P2P traffic. In
                  this paper, we address this important issue by
                  proposing a new framework for designing P2P
                  applications that smoothly fit into the global
                  Internet. In our framework, an ISP decides on how
                  much of its bandwidth is to be allocated to P2P
                  applications, and P2P nodes inside the network query
                  the allocated bandwidth and adopt a peer-friendly
                  algorithm to fairly share the allocated
                  bandwidth. Using the typical percentile-based
                  charging model widely used in the Internet and real
                  traffic traces, we show that an ISP can allocate a
                  large amount of bandwidth to P2P traffic without
                  increasing its financial cost. We also show that a
                  distributed, peer-friendly algorithm can be
                  implemented to share the allocated P2P bandwidth.}
}