Study of the BitTorrent protocol¶

Introduction¶

The goal of this study is to evaluate the BitTorrent protocol for a LAN usage and perhaps adopt it for Aybabtu. The references are Wikipedia¹ and the official paper².

Features¶

Notes (draft)¶

Con¶

• Need of tracker ?
• No search system.
• Designed for Internet not for LAN. LAN has some specificities.

¹ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_(protocol)

² http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0003.html