A peer to peer sharing application my partner and I developed for our graduate networking course, Internet Protocols. This application is a P2P file sharing system with a centralized index (CI).

The project goals:

• Becoming familiar with network programming and the socket interface
• Creating server processes that wait for connections
• Creating client processes that contact a well-known server and exchange data over the Internet
• Defining a simple application protocol and making sure that peers and server follow precisely the specifications for their side of the protocol in order to accomplish particular tasks
• Creating and managing a centralized index at the server based on information provided by the peers
• Implementing a concurrent server that is capable of carrying out communication with multiple clients simultaneously