With the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT), the P2P networks have found increased interest in the research community since the search protocols for these networks can be gainfully utilized in the resource discovery process for the IoT applications. In an unstructured P2P network, there is no centralized administrative entity that controls the operations of the peers, and the resources (i.e., the files) that the peers share are not related to the their topological positions in the network. The proposed system is developed in such manner that it provides maximum user friendly interface using PHP (Hypertext pre-processor) programming language using the XAMPP as the testbed.Ī peer-to-peer (P2P) network is a distributed system in which the autonomous peers can leave and join the network at their will and share their resources to perform some functions in a distributed manner. The system is developed to be an auxiliary in distributing academic resources among students. Why did we decide to create one more file sharing system? The answer is that the proposed system has some unique properties, which distinguish it from other existing systems. The proposed system is a peer-to-peer file sharing application. In peer-to-peer, file transfers can occur between the individual nodes. This is much different from traditional client/server systems, where files would lie on one central machine, and all transfers would occur only between the individual clients and that machine. The main design idea of these systems is files are distributed throughout nodes. Familiar applications or architectures such as Napster, Gnutella, and Freenet have a large user base.

Peer-to-peer file sharing applications have been in existence for some time.

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