Peer - To - Peer File Sharing: Offline Approach

Abstract

The traditional method of transferring data within the Internet has followed the client-server paradigm. That means there is a known content provider, the server, to which the clients connect in order to receive the required data directly from the server. Thus, one needs powerful servers, which lead to high costs, to handle all the incoming requests. With home computers getting faster and high-speed Internet connections getting more and more common, relocating the task of content delivery away from the server seemed to be the next logical step. With the P2P model, however, there is no central server. Every computer connected to the network can act as a server and a client – both sending and receiving data – and the applications running on each PC works to find the most efficient way to share between each other, spreading the load and increasing the strength of the whole network.This paper brings to light the trends and an offline approach to Peer to Peer file sharing on the internet.