scholarly journals IOTA-BT: A P2P File-Sharing System Based on IOTA

Electronics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 1610 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li-Yuan Hou ◽  
Tsung-Yi Tang ◽  
Tyng-Yeu Liang
Keyword(s):  
Single Point ◽  
Hash Table ◽  
File Sharing ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
Cyber Attacks ◽  
Distributed Hash Table ◽  
P2p File Sharing ◽  
File Sharing System ◽  
Transaction Fees ◽  
Quantum Resistant Cryptography

BitTorrent (BT) is the most popular peer-to-peer file-sharing system. According to official BT information, more than 100 million active users use BT for file transfers every month. However, BT mainly relies on either a central tracker (tracker) or distributed hash table (DHT) for locating file seeders while it runs a risk of a single point of failure or cyber-attacks such as Sybil and Eclipses. To attack this problem, we proposed a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file-sharing system called IOTA-BT by integrating BitTorrent with IOTA in this paper. The advantages of IOTA over blockchain include scalability for high throughput, compatibility with Internet of Things (IoT) footprints, zero transaction fees, partition-tolerant, and quantum-resistant cryptography. The autopeering and neighbor selection of the Coordicide of IOTA is aimed at defending a Sybil or Eclipse attack. IOTA-BT inherits these advantages from IOTA. Moreover, our experimental results have shown that the cost of executing BT functions, such as releasing torrent files and retrieving seeder information on IOTA-BT, is acceptable for improving the security of BT. IOTA-BT can indeed efficiently provide users with a P2P file-sharing environment of higher security.

scholarly journals The Managing of Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Technologies’ Network Effect: An Adaptation of Actor-Network Theory

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-44
Author(s):  
Kobra Elahifar
Keyword(s):  
Network Theory ◽  
Music Industry ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
File Sharing ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
Network Effect ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
P2p File Sharing ◽  
The Impact

Peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing technologies have impacted the music industry, including its strategies for the distribution of the musical products, for more than a decade now. As a result, music labels have delayed full digitization of their industry in fear of “online music piracy”. The present paper reviews the historical context of the evolution of the music industry from 1999 to 2012. Using Actor-Network theory, the paper examines the strategies that helped the music industry to translate new actors’ effect in order to sustain music labels’ business on their path to digitize music distribution. I will discuss the impact of new digital policies and methods of governing online behavior including the business concept of “entrepreneurship” as they may potentially affect the future of public domain within the framework of consumer rights.

PAFS: A structured & scalable p2p file sharing system over the internet

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arafat Anwar Choudhury ◽  
Ashiqur Rahman ◽  
Md. Mostafijur Rahman ◽  
Mohammad Khalad Hasan ◽  
C.M. Mufassil Wahid
Keyword(s):  
File Sharing ◽  
The Internet ◽  
P2p File Sharing ◽  
File Sharing System

Security Enhancement of Peer-to-Peer Session Initiation

2012 ◽  
pp. 281-308
Author(s):  
Xianghan Zheng ◽  
Vladimir Oleshchuk
Keyword(s):  
Communication System ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Hash Table ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
Distributed Hash Table ◽  
Peer Communication ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Security Enhancement ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The Cost

Today, Peer-to-Peer SIP based communication systems have attracted much attention from both the academia and industry. The decentralized nature of P2P might provide the distributed peer-to-peer communication system without help of the traditional SIP server. However, the decentralization features come to the cost of the reduced manageability and create new concerns. Until now, the main focus of research was on the availability of the network and systems, while few attempts are put on protecting privacy. In this chapter, we investigate on P2PSIP security issues and introduce two enhancement solutions: central based security and distributed trust security, both of which have their own advantages and disadvantages. After that, we study appropriate combination of these two approaches to get optimized protection. Our design is independent of the DHT (Distributed Hash Table) overlay technology. We take the Chord overlay as the example, and then, analyze the system in several aspects: security & privacy, number-of the hops, message flows, etc.

Usage of Broadcast Messaging in a Distributed Hash Table for Intrusion Detection

2011 ◽  
pp. 77-93
Author(s):  
Zoltán Czirkos ◽  
Gábor Hosszú
Keyword(s):  
Intrusion Detection ◽  
Intrusion Detection System ◽  
Detection System ◽  
High Reliability ◽  
Hash Table ◽  
User Interaction ◽  
Overlay Network ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
Transport Layer ◽  
Distributed Hash Table

In this chapter, the authors present a novel peer-to-peer based intrusion detection system called Komondor, more specifically, its internals regarding the utilized peer-to-peer transport layer. The novelty of our intrusion detection system is that it is composed of independent software instances running on different hosts and is organized into a peer-to-peer network. The maintenance of this overlay network does not require any user interaction. The applied P2P overlay network model enables the nodes to communicate evenly over an unstable network. The base of our Komondor NIDS is a P2P network similar to Kademlia. To achieve high reliability and availability, we had to modify the Kademlia overlay network in such a way so that it would be resistent to network failures and support broadcast messages. The main purpose of this chapter is to present our modifications and enhancements on Kademlia.

CAPU: Enhancing P2P File Sharing System with Capacity Aware Topology

2005 ◽  
pp. 214-225
Author(s):  
Hongliang Yu ◽  
Weimin Zheng ◽  
Dongsheng Wang ◽  
Haitao Dong ◽  
Lu Li
Keyword(s):  
File Sharing ◽  
P2p File Sharing ◽  
File Sharing System

Peer-to-Peer Technology for File Sharing

2011 ◽  
pp. 372-377
Author(s):  
S. H. Kwok ◽  
Y. M. Cheung ◽  
K. Y. Chan
Keyword(s):  
File Sharing ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
P2p Networks ◽  
P2p Computing ◽  
Client Server ◽  
P2p Systems ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
P2p File Sharing ◽  
P2p Applications

A recent survey revealed that 18 millions American Internet users, or approximately 14% of total American Internet population have peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing applications running on their computers (Rainie & Madden, 2004). Not surprisingly, P2P applications have become common tools for information sharing and distribution since the appearance of Napster (Napster, 2003) in 1999. P2P systems are the distributed systems in which all nodes are equal in terms of functionality and able to directly communicate with each other without the coordination of a powerful server. Anonymity, scalability, fault resilience, decentralization and self-organization are the distinct characteristics of P2P computing (Milojicic et al., 2002) compared with the traditional client-server computing. P2P computing is believed to be capable of overcoming limitations of the computing environment placed by the client-server computing model. Milojicic et al. (2002), for example, suggested that P2P computing is capable of providing improved scalability by eliminating the limiting factor, the centralized server existing in the client-server computing. In the past few years, P2P computing and its promised characteristics have caught the attention of researchers who have studied the existing P2P networks, and the advantages and disadvantage of P2P systems. Important findings include the excessive network traffic caused by flooding-based searching mechanism that must be tackled in order to fully utilize the improved scalability of P2P systems (Matei, Iamnitchi, & Foster, 2002; Portmann & Seneviratne, 2002). There were proposed efficient searching techniques targeted for both structured and unstructured P2P systems. Other research projects were conducted to study, and were intended to complement, the drawbacks brought by distinct characteristics of P2P systems. For example, the P2P users’ free-riding behavior is generally attributed to the anonymity of such form of communication (Adar & Huberman, 2000). Recent research projects have shifted to a new line of investigation of P2P networks from the economic perspective and applications of P2P systems in workplaces (Kwok & Gao, 2004; Tiwana, 2003).

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