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Title:
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BOOTTORRENT: PEER-TO-PEER FAST NETWORK BOOT |
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Author(s):
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Davide Bruschi, Andrea Trentini |
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ISBN:
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978-989-8533-45-6 |
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Editors:
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Hans Weghorn |
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Year:
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2015 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Peer-to-peer, Network boot, Free Software, Bittorrent, GNU/Linux |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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73 |
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Last Page:
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79 |
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Language:
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English |
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Cover:
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Network booting is widely used today: for thin-client computing, cluster computing, operating system installation and context switching in classrooms (i.e., for exams or different lessons). Currently available netboot protocols are the trivial file transfer protocol (TFTP) and hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP). When a group of machines need to simultaneously boot, the boot server becomes a bottleneck and it is very easy to reach the server network capacity, thus grinding the whole system to a halt. P2P network booting could relieve the server burden and some solution already exists, but they are either too complicated, very O.S. specific or even described in a paper but unavailable... This paper proposes a Free Software BitTorrent based two-phase downloading system, implemented in a less-than-a-hundred-lines script achieving an almost flat boot time with respect to the number of nodes booting together. |
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