A Colloquium On Bit Torrent

By- Kamal Krishn Gupta

Roll No. - 1573713012

Submitted to – Miss Anamika

Shrivastava(Ass.pro)

Under supervision - Mrs. Deepa Verma(Ass.pro)

REC AMBEDKAR NAGAR

Date – 21.02.2017

Contents

Definition

Terminology Method Advantage

Application Reference

Disadvantage

What is BitTorrent ?

P2P(Peer To Peer) file transfer protocol.Transfer of large files.Files are shared by many users.Active participation of all users.Huge success in file sharing domain since 2003.

Who? What? Where? When?

Invented By Bram Cohen

    

It is now maintained by Cohen's company, BitTorrent Inc.

Released on July 2, 2002

Terminology

ClientPeerSeedLeecherTracker

A BitTorrent client is a program help to share through torrent protocol in simple application or software torrent downloader.If you already installed program like.

Client

Creates and manages a list of peers/seeds.

Seeder Someone who has finished

downloading or complete file and is only uploading.

Peer

Peers = leechers + seeds.Downloading speed of any file using torrent

depends on number of peers.

Leecher

Someone who wants to download at high speed but did not want to share the data or file.

A BitTorrent trackern is a server that regulates the communication between those downloading and uploading torrents.

Tracker

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Source

Client B

Original download method

Client A

Method

Ex.HTTP File Transfer

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Seed

Client A

Client B

BitTorrent download method

Ex.Bit Torrent Approach

Allows higher download rates. Negates any server down time. Equalizes the burden of hardware

requirements, hosting, and bandwidth across all users of the file.

Advantages

Downloads can be slow to start due to the limited number of connections found when starting a torrent download.

Downloads can be difficult to finish if many users do not have a particular part of the file.

BitTorrent is often used for illegal purposes and has become notorious for that use.

Disadvantages

Bit Torrent Bit Tyrant BitTornado – light and easy BitComet U Torrent

Application

BitTorrent is a relatively new protocol in the file sharing world. P2P software has gotten a bad reputation from its many illegal uses. BitTorrent is one of the few P2P protocols being widely used for legal purposes, and will continue to grow in use in the years ahead.

Conclusion

References

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/bittorrent.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent http://computer.howstuffworks.com/file-sharing.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web http://www.bittorrent.com/help/guides/beginners-guide

Thank You