Peer-to-Peer Network

A university project where peers form a ring and share files without a central server.

What it does

• Supports five actions:
  • Store data
  • Fetch data
  • Join the network
  • Leave cleanly
  • Recover when a peer drops out suddenly
• Peers check on their neighbours over UDP to see who is still online.
• Sends data over TCP so nothing gets lost.
• Spreads data across peers with a circular distributed hash table.

Built with

• Python
• UDP and TCP sockets
• Threads