PAFS: A structured & scalable p2p file sharing system over the internet

Abstract

The term dasiapeer-to-peerpsila (P2P) refers to a class of systems and applications that employ distributed resources to perform a critical function in a decentralized manner. We have successfully implemented a pure P2P system, dasiaPAFSpsila (peer-to-peer application for file sharing) that is fully decentralized in its manner, for sharing files over the Internet. We present all the necessary operations that we have implemented for our system and discuss the scalability of our system. We also propose a model in this paper that can be used to include NAT within our system.