Peer-to-peer file sharing across private networks using proxy servers

Project Abstract

<p> </p><h2></h2> <p>The Internet today is commonly used as a medium to share large size multimedia</p><p>content. This sharing is carried out, a number of times, through the Peer to Peer</p><p>sharing architecture rather than the conventional server-client model. The paucity</p><p>of network addresses in the Internet has led to the emergence of private and global</p><p>networks. Because the identity of peers in a private network remains hidden behind</p><p>their global endpoint, P2P applications cannot run between two peers in separate</p><p>private networks. Techniques such as hole-punching require the use of a centralized</p><p>entity which serves as a bottleneck to the P2P application.</p><p>We have proposed a hierarchical P2P network of private and global networks. Here, the</p><p>lower tier is formed by the peers in each private network, while the upper tier is formed</p><p>by the global endpoints (called proxies) of each of these private networks. We have</p><p>designed a new file sharing protocol, FTPNP, between these proxies which preserves</p><p>the identities of the actual endpoints of the file transfer, present in separate private</p><p>networks. We have also created a Credit Management System in order to ensure fairness</p><p>and incentive to share in the designed hierarchical P2P system. We have implemented</p><p>all the above proposed features and tested them to ensure the preservation of the</p><p>essential features of a P2P network.</p> <br><p></p>

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