Peer-to-Peer.pptVIP

Peer-to-Peer Inside and out What is a P2P network? All machines are connected as equal Each user is a Peer Peers can act as both a server and a client What does this mean? Each user can send and receive files from other users To understand the importance, must look at the other ways of transmitting data The Old Days Server to Client Client requests information from server All data must be on server Server uses all its bandwidth to send data Must split up bandwidth for many users Benefits of P2P Distributed Data can be distributed across the entire network Bandwidth is distributed across each machine with the data Search processing is distributed Redundancy within the network Napster Clients registered with central server Useful if subscription service is introduced Central server kept search indexes Allowed users to search from their servers and download the files from other computers Gnutella Originally developed at Nullsoft Left as Open Source once project was released to public, then abandoned LimeWire emerged as a community leader Used by many clients Limewire – BearShare – Shareaza – Many more… Gnutella No centralized server Only have to connect to anyone on the network to become apart of it Can’t be easily shutdown Each search query forwarded to nodes connected to Searches may not go far TTL value goes down quick High bandwidth usage Each node is sending query UltraPeers and Leaf systems implemented to counter scalability problems Gnutella Gnutella Gnutella FastTrack Protocol Used by Kazaa – Formerly used by Morpheus Sharman networks shutdown Morpheus’ ability to connected Users register to main server Option for subscription still open Users then connect to SuperNodes Files are downloaded from other users FastTrack Protocol What are SuperNodes? SuperNodes are other users with high bandwidth and processing abilities Requirements must be met to become a SuperNode SuperNodes act as search indexes and network hub High Scalability SuperNodes allows search quer