applied sciences Article A Novel Massive Deployment Solution Based on the Peer-to-Peer Protocol Steven J. H. Shiau 1,2,*, Yu-Chiang Huang 3, Ching-Hsuan Yen 3, Yu-Chin Tsai 2, Chen-Kai Sun 2, Jer-Nan Juang 1, Chi-Yo Huang 4,*, Ching-Chun Huang 5 and Shih-Kun Huang 3 1 Department of Engineering Science, National Cheng Kung University, No.1, University Road, Tainan City 701, Taiwan;
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[email protected] (C.-Y.H.); Tel.: +886-3-5776085 (ext. 335) (S.J.H.S) Received: 26 November 2018; Accepted: 10 January 2019; Published: 15 January 2019 Abstract: The BitTorrent (BT) is a peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing protocol that was developed approximately 20 years ago, is becoming increasingly popular, and has been widely accepted. The BT-based mass deployment system can be used to improve performance and scalability that cannot be achieved by the unicasting, broadcasting, and multicasting protocols.