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Fast Freenet: Improving Freenet Performance by Preferential Partition Routing and File Mesh Propagation
The Freenet Peer-to-Peer network is doing a good job
in providing anonymity to the users. But the performance
of the network in terms of download speed and request hit
ratio is not that good.
We propose two modifications to Freenet in order to improve
the download speed and request hit ratio for all participants.
To improve download speed we propose Preferential
Partition Routing, where nodes are grouped according
to bandwidth and slow nodes are discriminated when routing.
For improvements in request hit ratio we propose File
Mesh propagation where each node sends fuzzy information
about what documents it posesses to its neigbors.
To verify our proposals we simulate the Freenet network
and the bandwidth restrictions present between nodes as
well as using observed distributions for user actions to show
how it affects the network.
Our results show an improvement of the request hit ratio
by over 30 times and an increase of the average download
speed with six times, compared to regular Freenet routing