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).

scholarly journals Peer-to-Peer Networks for Content Sharing

2011 ◽  
pp. 28-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Choon Hoong Ding ◽  
Sarana Nutanong ◽  
Rajkumar Buyya
Keyword(s):  
File Sharing ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
Peer Networks ◽  
P2p Networks ◽  
P2p Computing ◽  
P2p Systems ◽  
Content Sharing ◽  
Peer To Peer Networks ◽  
Network Topologies ◽  
Broad Overview

Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems are popularly used as “file swapping” networks to support distributed content sharing. A number of P2P networks for file sharing have been developed and deployed. Napster, Gnutella, and Fasttrack are three popular P2P systems. This chapter presents a broad overview of P2P computing and focuses on content sharing networks and technologies. It also emphasizes on the analysis of network topologies used in popular P2P systems. In addition, this chapter also identifies and describes architecture models and compares various characteristics of four P2P systems—Napster, Gnutella, Fasttrack, and OpenFT.

Investigating Cybercrimes that Occur on Documented P2P Networks

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 56-63
Author(s):  
Mark Scanlon ◽  
Alan Hannaway ◽  
Mohand-Tahar Kechadi
Keyword(s):  
Communication Technologies ◽  
File Sharing ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
P2p Network ◽  
Internet Communication ◽  
P2p Networks ◽  
P2p Systems ◽  
And Control ◽  
P2p Technology ◽  
Virus Distribution

The popularity of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Internet communication technologies being exploited to aid cybercrime is ever increasing. P2P systems can be used or exploited to aid in the execution of a large number of online criminal activities, e.g., copyright infringement, fraud, malware and virus distribution, botnet creation, and control. P2P technology is perhaps most famous for the unauthorised distribution of copyrighted materials since the late 1990’s, with the popularity of file-sharing programs such as Napster. In 2004, P2P traffic accounted for 80% of all Internet traffic and in 2005, specifically BitTorrent traffic accounted for over 60% of the world’s P2P bandwidth usage. This paper outlines a methodology for investigating a documented P2P network, BitTorrent, using a sample investigation for reference throughout. The sample investigation outlined was conducted on the top 100 most popular BitTorrent swarms over the course of a one week period.

Investigating Cybercrimes that Occur on Documented P2P Networks

2014 ◽  
pp. 109-115
Author(s):  
Mark Scanlon ◽  
Alan Hannaway ◽  
Mohand-Tahar Kechadi
Keyword(s):  
Communication Technologies ◽  
File Sharing ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
P2p Network ◽  
Internet Communication ◽  
P2p Networks ◽  
P2p Systems ◽  
And Control ◽  
P2p Technology ◽  
Virus Distribution

The popularity of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Internet communication technologies being exploited to aid cybercrime is ever increasing. P2P systems can be used or exploited to aid in the execution of a large number of online criminal activities, e.g., copyright infringement, fraud, malware and virus distribution, botnet creation, and control. P2P technology is perhaps most famous for the unauthorised distribution of copyrighted materials since the late 1990’s, with the popularity of file-sharing programs such as Napster. In 2004, P2P traffic accounted for 80% of all Internet traffic and in 2005, specifically BitTorrent traffic accounted for over 60% of the world’s P2P bandwidth usage. This paper outlines a methodology for investigating a documented P2P network, BitTorrent, using a sample investigation for reference throughout. The sample investigation outlined was conducted on the top 100 most popular BitTorrent swarms over the course of a one week period.

Peer-to-Peer Computing

2011 ◽  
pp. 3047-3052
Author(s):  
Manuela Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Network Protocols ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
Distributed Resources ◽  
P2p Computing ◽  
Client Server ◽  
P2p Systems ◽  
Computing Paradigm ◽  
Distribution Services ◽  
Multimedia Distribution

The term peer-to-peer (P2P) was originally used to refer to network protocols where all the nodes had the same role and there were no nodes with specific responsibilities to act as the administrators or supervisors of a network (Ye, Makedon, & Ford, 2004). However, with the evolution of Internet as the dominant architecture for applications, contents, and services, applications and services have gradually migrated from the client-server paradigm to the edge services paradigm and now to the P2P computing paradigm. Therefore, nowadays, the term P2P refers to a class of systems and applications that use distributed resources to perform some function in a decentralized manner, where every participating node can act as both a client and a server (Ye et al., 2004). This article provides an overview of P2P computing, being focused on the types of multimedia distribution services and cooperation models in P2P systems. These models are classified regarding the functionality, the degree of decentralization, and the degree of structure of the information system.

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.

Core Concepts in Peer-to-Peer Networking

2011 ◽  
pp. 1-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Detlef Schoder ◽  
Kai Fischbach ◽  
Christian Schmitt
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
P2p Networks ◽  
Social Challenges ◽  
Management Of Resources ◽  
Core Concepts ◽  
P2p Applications ◽  
Peer To Peer Networking

This chapter reviews core concepts of peer-to-peer (P2P) networking. It highlights the management of resources, such as bandwidth, storage, information, files, and processor cycles based on P2P networks. A model differentiating P2P infrastructures, P2P applications, and P2P communities is introduced. This model provides a better understanding of the different perspectives of P2P. Key technical and social challenges that still limit the potential of information systems based on P2P architectures are discussed.

Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing

2012 ◽  
pp. 96-112
Author(s):  
Peter Allen ◽  
Katherine Shepherd ◽  
Lynne Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Strong Support ◽  
File Sharing ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
Subjective Norms ◽  
Psychological Reactance ◽  
Standard Theory ◽  
P2p Networks ◽  
Planned Behaviour ◽  
Perceived Behavioural Control ◽  
Significant Variance

Despite persistent government and industry efforts to stop the sharing and downloading of media such as files over peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, this activity shows no sign of abating. This research investigated whether psychological reactance could account for variance in the intent to engage in, and the extent of such behaviour beyond that accounted for by the standard Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) variables. No support for psychological reactance as a predictor of P2P file downloading intent or behaviour was found in this paper. However, the results did indicate that attitude, subjective norms, and perceived behavioural control each accounted for significant variance in P2P file downloading behaviour, and that these relationships were fully mediated by behavioural intent. These findings are consistent with, and provide strong support for, the use of the TPB within this domain.

Peer-to-Peer Usage Analysis

2009 ◽  
pp. 1136-1141
Author(s):  
Florent Masseglia ◽  
Pascal Poncelet ◽  
Maguelonne Teisseire
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Distributed Database ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
Communication Model ◽  
P2p Systems ◽  
P2p File Sharing ◽  
Limited Edition ◽  
Usage Analysis ◽  
High Dynamics ◽  
P2p System

With the huge number of information sources available on the Internet and the high dynamics of their data, peer-to-peer (P2P) systems propose a communication model in which each party has the same capabilities and can initiate a communication session. These networks allow a group of computer users with the same networking program to connect with each other and directly access resources from one another. P2P architectures also provide a good infrastructure for data and computer intensive operations such as data mining. In this article we consider a new data mining approach for improving resource searching in a dynamic and distributed database such as an unstructured P2P system, that is, in Masseglia, Poncelet, and Teisseire (2006) we call this problem P2P usage analysis. More precisely we aim at discovering frequent behaviors among users of such a system. We will focus on the sequential order between actions performed on each node (requests or downloads) and show how this order has to be taken into account for extracting useful knowledge. For instance, it may be discovered, in a P2P file sharing network that for 77% of nodes from which a request is sent for “Mandriva Linux,” the file “Mandriva Linux 2005 CD1 i585-Limited- Edition-Mini.iso” is chosen and downloaded; then a new request is performed with the possible name of the remaining iso images (i.e., “Mandriva Linux 2005 Limited Edition”), and in the large number of returned results the image corresponding to “Mandriva Linux 2005 CD2 i585-Limited-Edition-Mini.iso” is chosen and downloaded. Such knowledge is very useful for proposing the user with often downloaded or requested files according to a majority of behaviors. It could also be useful in order to avoid extra bandwidth consumption, which is the main cost of P2P queries (Ng, Chu, Rao, Sripanidkulchai, & Zhang, 2003).

Peer-to-Peer over Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks

2010 ◽  
pp. 105-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadia N Qadri ◽  
Antonio Liotta
Keyword(s):  
Ad Hoc Networks ◽  
Mobile Ad Hoc Networks ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
P2p Streaming ◽  
P2p File Sharing ◽  
Mobile Ad Hoc ◽  
Active Research ◽  
Hoc Networks ◽  
P2p Applications

In this chapter we review various approaches for the convergence of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) and Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs), identifying strengths and weaknesses, and putting things in perspective. P2P and MANETs are among the most active research topics in pervasive computing. The convergence of P2P networks and MANETs would allow existing P2P applications such as P2P file sharing and P2P streaming to benefit from the ubiquitous connectivity of ad-hoc. A P2P network over an ad-hoc infrastructure is a powerful combination that provides users with means to access different kinds of information anytime and anywhere. Realizing such a system is, however, not straightforward.

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.

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