transport: µTP

[daviddias]

Micro Transport Protocol or µTP (sometimes also uTP) is an open UDP-based variant of the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file sharing protocol intended to mitigate poor latency and other congestion control issues found in conventional BitTorrent over TCP, while providing reliable, ordered delivery

Following libp2p implementation in Go and go-ipfs supporting utp as a transport. @masylum has initiated the work to build the libp2p-utp shim that enables libp2p to use multiaddr instead of ip:port pairs and @mafintosh is working on the single uTP implementation available in JS

How can you help:

• Contributing to https://github.com/mafintosh/utp -> TODO: https://github.com/mafintosh/utp/blob/master/TODO

Reference links:

• Original uTP implementation (C++) - https://github.com/bittorrent/libutp
• Low Extra Delay Background Transport LEDBAT http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6817 (note: Details of the µTP implementation are different from Spec: http://forum.bittorrent.org/viewtopic.php?pid=753#p753 - currently being unable to access )

[daviddias]

here

https://github.com/libp2p/js-libp2p-utp

[humanely]

Does this work on cellular network of 3G/4G?
Any tests done yet. Please let me know if I can build one