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This paper presents the design and implementation of the Dynamic Transport Library (DTL), a UDP-based reliable transport library, initially designed for - but not limited to - peer-to-peer applications. DTL combines many features not simultaneously offered by any other transport library including: i) Wide scope of congestion control levels starting from less-than-best-effort to high-priority, ii) Prioritization of traffic relative to other non-DTL traffic, iii) Prioritization of traffic between DTL connections, iv) NAT-friendliness, v) Portability, and vi) Application level implementation. Moreover, DTL has a novel feature, namely, the ability to change the level of aggressiveness of a certain connection at run-time. All the features of the DTL were validated using a controlled environment as well as the Planet Lab testbed.
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Reale, R., Roverso, R., El-Ansary, S., Haridi, S. (2012). DTL: Dynamic Transport Library for Peer-to-Peer Applications. In: Bononi, L., Datta, A.K., Devismes, S., Misra, A. (eds) Distributed Computing and Networking. ICDCN 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7129. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25959-3_32
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