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sharing in Canada">Canada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File_sharing_in_Japan" title="File sharing in Japan">Japan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File_sharing_in_Singapore" title="File sharing in Singapore">Singapore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File_sharing_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="File sharing in the United Kingdom">UK</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legal_aspects_of_file_sharing#United_States" title="Legal aspects of file sharing">USA</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Comparisons</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Comparison_of_BitTorrent_clients" title="Comparison of BitTorrent clients">Comparison of BitTorrent clients</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comparison_of_BitTorrent_sites" title="Comparison of BitTorrent sites">Comparison of BitTorrent sites</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comparison_of_eDonkey_software" title="Comparison of eDonkey software">Comparison of eDonkey software</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_Relay_Chat_clients" class="mw-redirect" title="Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients">Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comparison_of_Usenet_newsreaders" title="Comparison of Usenet newsreaders">Comparison of Usenet newsreaders</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239400231">.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:inline;font-size:88%;font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .navbar-collapse{float:left;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .navbar-boxtext{word-spacing:0}.mw-parser-output .navbar ul{display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;line-height:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::before{margin-right:-0.125em;content:"[ 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href="/wiki/Template_talk:File_sharing_sidebar" title="Template talk:File sharing sidebar"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:File_sharing_sidebar" title="Special:EditPage/Template:File sharing sidebar"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Micro Transport Protocol</b> (<b>μTP</b>, sometimes <b>uTP</b>) is an <a href="/wiki/Open_standard" title="Open standard">open</a> <a href="/wiki/User_Datagram_Protocol" title="User Datagram Protocol">User Datagram Protocol</a>-based (UDP-based) variant of the <a href="/wiki/BitTorrent" title="BitTorrent">BitTorrent</a> <a href="/wiki/Peer-to-peer_file_sharing" title="Peer-to-peer file sharing">peer-to-peer file sharing</a> <a href="/wiki/Protocol_(computing)" class="mw-redirect" title="Protocol (computing)">protocol</a> intended to mitigate poor <a href="/wiki/Network_latency" class="mw-redirect" title="Network latency">latency</a> and other <a href="/wiki/Network_congestion#Congestion_control" title="Network congestion">congestion control</a> problems found in conventional BitTorrent over <a href="/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol" title="Transmission Control Protocol">Transmission Control Protocol</a> (TCP), while providing reliable, ordered delivery. </p><p>It was devised to automatically slow down<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the rate at which packets of data are transmitted between users of <a href="/wiki/Peer-to-peer" title="Peer-to-peer">peer-to-peer</a> file sharing <a href="/wiki/BitTorrent" title="BitTorrent">torrents</a> when it interferes with other applications. For example, the protocol should automatically allow the sharing of a <a href="/wiki/Digital_subscriber_line" title="Digital subscriber line">DSL line</a> between a BitTorrent application and a web browser. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Development">Development</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Micro_Transport_Protocol&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Development"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>μTP emerged from research at <a href="/wiki/Internet2" title="Internet2">Internet2</a> on <a href="/wiki/Quality_of_service" title="Quality of service">QoS</a> and high-performance <a href="/wiki/Bulk_transport" class="mw-redirect" title="Bulk transport">bulk transport</a>, was adapted for use as a background transport protocol by Plicto, founded by <a href="/wiki/Stanislav_Shalunov" class="mw-redirect" title="Stanislav Shalunov">Stanislav Shalunov</a> and Ben Teitelbaum<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and later acquired by <a href="/wiki/BitTorrent_(company)" class="mw-redirect" title="BitTorrent (company)">BitTorrent, Inc.</a> in 2006, and further developed within its new owner.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was first introduced in the μTorrent 1.8.x beta branches, and publicized in the alpha builds of <a href="/wiki/%CE%9CTorrent" title="ΜTorrent">μTorrent</a> 1.9.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The implementation of μTP used in μTorrent was later separated into the "libutp" library and published under the <a href="/wiki/MIT_license" class="mw-redirect" title="MIT license">MIT license</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The first <a href="/wiki/Free_software" title="Free software">free software</a> client to implement μTP was <a href="/wiki/KTorrent" title="KTorrent">KTorrent</a> 4.0.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Libtorrent" title="Libtorrent">libtorrent</a> implements μTP since version 0.16.0<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and it is used in <a href="/wiki/QBittorrent" title="QBittorrent">qBittorrent</a> since 2.8.0.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Tixati" title="Tixati">Tixati</a> implements μTP since version 1.72.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Vuze" title="Vuze">Vuze</a> (formerly Azureus) implements μTP since version 4.6.0.0.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Transmission_(BitTorrent_client)" title="Transmission (BitTorrent client)">Transmission</a> implements μTP since version 2.30.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="μTP_congestion_control"><span id=".CE.BCTP_congestion_control"></span>μTP congestion control</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Micro_Transport_Protocol&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: μTP congestion control"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The congestion control algorithm used by μTP, known as Low Extra Delay Background Transport (<a href="/wiki/LEDBAT" title="LEDBAT">LEDBAT</a>), aims to decrease the latency caused by applications using the protocol while maximizing bandwidth when latency is not excessive.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Additionally, information from the μTP congestion controller can be used to choose the transfer rate of TCP connections.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1246091330"><table class="sidebar sidebar-collapse nomobile nowraplinks hlist"><tbody><tr><th class="sidebar-title"><a href="/wiki/Internet" title="Internet">Internet</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Internet_map_1024_-_transparent,_inverted.png" 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