By, K.

HIMA BINDHU

 Terminology

History of Bit Torrent.

What Is Bit Torrent? Bit Torrent Over FTP. How does it work? Advantages

Disadvantages
Conclusion

 TORRENT

The .torrent file contains the information that points to the actual file and the people who are sharing it. PEER A peer is any computer participating in the download and upload of a torrent file. SEEDER A seed (or seeder) is anyone who has a complete copy of the file being shared across the torrent network.

 LEECHER- A leech (or a leecher) is the person who does

not have the complete file yet but has joined the network to download it.
SWARM The swarm is the sum total of all the lechers and

seeders (i.e. all the computers) participating in the torrent process.

TRACKER The tracker is a server which has the

information of who has what files and who needs which ones, thus acting as a bridge between seeders and leechers.

 American Programmer Bram Cohen

designed the protocol in April 2001 and released a first implementation on 02-072001. It is now maintained by Cohen's company Bit Torrent, Inc.. According to ISO Hunt, the total amount of shared content was more than 9.4 pent bytes as of 10-09-2009

 P2P(Peer To Peer) file transfer protocol Transfer of large files Files are shared by many users

Active participation of all users

Download speed increases as number

of persons downloading increases

source Router Interested End host

source Router Interested End host

source Router Interested End host

 Toshareafileorgroupoffiles,apeerfirstcreates

asmallfilecalleda"torrent(e.g Abc .torrent). &this .torrent file contains necessary information: Name Size Tracker

 To share the data using Bit Torrent we must

Have Tracker server, A file with .'torrent' extension, complete copy of the file being shared. .torrent file contains data which is essential for the protocol to function-file length, file name, information about the tracker. When we open .'torrent' file in client, it will connect to the tracker and start downloading

 It is most efficient and reliable

It has bandwidth limitation Free downloads are possible

 lifespan of each torrent is limited Typically, it doesnt have user friendly

Interface.
Illegal distribution of files online

 Bit torrent is a thought-out protocol that

self optimize all the mechanisms.

BitTorrent propose solutions for current

scalability problems

BitTorrent is a well thought-out protocol that self-optimizes all the mechanisms.

o BitTorrent propose solutions for current

scalability problems.

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