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1. 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

2. Contents Definition T erminology Method A dvantage Application R eference D isadvantage

3. 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.

4. Who? What? Where? When? Invented By Bram Cohen         It is now maintained by Cohen's company, BitTorrent Inc. Released on July 2, 2002

5. Terminology Client Peer Seed Leecher Tracker

6. 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.

7. 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.

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

9. A BitTorrent tracker n is a server that regulates the communication between those downloading and uploading torrents. Tracker

10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 2 3 4 Source Client B Original download method Client A Method

11. Ex.HTTP File Transfer

12. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 1 2 3 7 8 10 11 13 1 5 6 8 9 12 13 Seed Client A Client B BitTorrent download method

13. Ex.Bit Torrent Approach

14. 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

15. 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

16. Bit Torrent Bit Tyrant BitTornado – light and easy BitComet U Torrent Application

17. 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

18. 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

19. Thank You